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But Camer comforted him in baby fashion by caressing him, and then went to her mother, who had lain down again. And this is how the friendship between Cara and Camer began.
"No good," said Ann, shaking her head. "He wouldn't give them to you. He wants his pound of flesh" bitterly. "Why don't you ask Eliot to give you the money?" demanded Cara suddenly. A deep flush stained Ann's cheeks. "I've not fallen so low that I'll ask the man I'm engaged to for money with which to pay another man's debts." "You'd ask him if you were married" defiantly.
"Is it useless to appeal to you again to surrender to the call of love?" countered Don Carlos. "Myra, mia cara, every fibre of my being is pulsing with love for you, and my heart is craving for the joy and rapture that you alone can give. Look into my eyes, mia cara, and whisper that you love me."
In greeting Lennox he seemed to be in a pleasant dream. The crowd swallowed him. "Who was that?" Mrs. Austen enquired. "Ten Eyck Jones." "The writer?" asked this lady, who liked novels, but who preferred to live them. Meanwhile Paliser was talking to Cassy Cara and the Tamburini. The latter listened idly, with her evil smile. Yet Paliser's name was very evocative.
Malvina feigned not to hear; Cara, given up to her twittering, twittered on: "Then father said that mamma and Ira were leading almost the life of a cloister, that they received few persons, and went out little. That had the appearance of domestic misfortune, or of bankruptcy. Such an appearance was ugly in general, and harmful to business.
The shutters were flung open, and the young soldier stepped flamboyantly into the room. "I am here, cara, cara mia!" he cried. "I, Vibrato Adagio!" With a sibilant cry she fell into his out-stretched arms. "Mio, mio," she echoed in ecstasy, "I am yours and you are mine!" So lightly was the first stepping-stone passed on her reckless path of immorality and vice.
He was you and yet you are here same size same costume same beard even the same beads around the neck." They had almost reached the bridge and were slowing down when Benton, scanning the road, empty in the moonlight, grasped for the first time a definite suspicion of what had happened. "Cara!" he shouted. "Good God, where is she?" The chauffeur leaned over and shouted into his ear.
The more than ordinary trouble evinced, as well in the whole manner of Ellis as in the expression of his face and in the tones of his voice, oppressed the heart of Cara. She felt that something more than usual must have occurred to disturb him. Could it be possible that any thing was wrong in his business? The thought caused a low thrill to tremble along her nerves.
To his great relief, Cara met him with a smile, and seemed to be in an unusually good humour. Their sweet babe was lying asleep on her lap; and his other two children were playing about the room. Instantly the sunshine fell warmly again on the heart of Ellis. He kissed mother and children fervently, and with a deep sense of love. "I called to see the bride this afternoon," said Mrs.
"Realizing that Cara could not hope to escape a royal marriage, her father looked toward Galavia. There at least the strain was clean ... untouched by degeneracy and untainted with libertinism. Karyl is as decent a chap as yourself. He loves her, and though he knows she accepts him only from compulsion, he believes he can eventually win her love as well as her mere acquiescence.
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