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At last I succeeded in persuading her to come with me into a box, and as soon as we were in and I had taken off her mask I was astonished to find she was Mdlle. "I have come to the ball," said she, "with one of my sisters, my elder brother, and M. Farsetti. I left them to go into a box and change my domino: "They must feel very uneasy."
Thus people wear a glossy mask of smiles, feigning to be unaware of the ivy-clad ruins among which their lot is cast. In the middle of the open summer-house sits a young girl on a rush chair; both hands rest in her lap. She is sitting with bent head and a strange expression in her beautiful face.
Before her marriage Sylvia made an attempt to safeguard herself in this very matter, and she was not dealt with fairly." At last I had made a hole in the mask! His face was crimson as he replied: "Madam, your knowledge of my private affairs is most astonishing. May I inquire how you learned these things?" I did not reply at once, and he repeated the question.
Turning to his sister, he grasped her hand, and said in a tone of command: "Well, Juley." Mrs. Septimus Small was the tallest of the four sisters; her good, round old face had gone a little sour; an innumerable pout clung all over it, as if it had been encased in an iron wire mask up to that evening, which, being suddenly removed, left little rolls of mutinous flesh all over her countenance.
Slowly he drew back and with all the strength of his nature fought for self-control. He called upon every force of his will, and in that supreme moment his face hardened to the appearance of a sculptured mask; all of its finely-drawn outlines seemed set in stone.
Death must have been almost instantaneous. They tore the mask from Mathias' face, and thereupon an agent of the secret police stepped forward and made known who it was. "This is the notorious Mathias," he said. "One of the most daring of the brigands hereabouts; we have been wanting him badly for some time past"
Here the different tribes met together to the number of twelve hundred bowmen, and formed their horrid plot. From this place of rendezvous they sent out small parties, who entered the settlements, under the mask of friendship, by different roads. At the change of the full moon all of them had agreed to begin their murderous operations, on the same night.
But Arthur was wrapped in his own mask of insular reserve, and so saw nothing of the storm that was sweeping over the boy's soul. Then the very spirit of evil laid hold on Tom. When the powers of good are present in the heart, and can find no outlet in action, they turn to evil. Tom had the desire to be kind and generous; ambition was stirring in him.
"Do be quiet," shouted the Court Glover. "Yes, I don't see anything to laugh at," said Marjorie indignantly. "Oh, he's always laughing," declared the Court Glover; "that's why he has to wear a mask so that people shan't see him laughing while he is chopping off their heads. It's so rude, you know, to giggle at a time like that, isn't it?"
At this sneer, cutting his face like a whip, the wretch answered panting: "That will do! Do not sneer at me so. It is too horrible now. Does it not touch you, then, to be loved as I love you in sacrificing everything to you fortune, honour, respect? See, look at me. I have snatched my mask off for you, I have snatched if off before all. And now, see, here is the hypocrite."
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