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I thought the music charming, and, of course, as he played it...! 'I shall only have three motives, he said. 'That's the La Vallière motive. Do you see the idea? 'You mean she limps? 'Precisely. Isn't it delightful? 'She won't have to limp much, you know. She didn't. 'Just the faintest suggestion. It will be delicious. I can see Morenita in the part. Well, what do you think of it?
And so it continued, the flattering stream, while Diaz listened, touched, and full of pride. 'Ah! I said. 'It is not I who deserve praise. An electric bell trembled in the theatre. Morenita picked up her cloak. 'Mon ami, she warned Villedo. 'I must go. Diaz, mon petit! you will persuade Mademoiselle Peel to come to the room of the Directeur later.
Morenita sighed. I had blushed. Decidedly I behaved like a girl last night. But, indeed, the new, swift realization, as Diaz singled me out of that multitude, that after all he utterly belonged to me, that he was mine alone, was more than I could bear with equanimity. I was the proudest woman in the universe. I scorned the lot of all other women.
'You won't come round? he asked. 'Both Villedo and Morenita are dying to meet you. I shook my head, smiling. 'You're satisfied? 'More than satisfied, I answered. 'The thing is wonderful. 'I think it's rather charming, he said. 'By the way, I've just had an offer from New York for it, and another from Rome. I nodded my appreciation. 'You don't want anything?
When Diaz led me in, only Villedo and the principal artists and Pouvillon, the conductor, were present. Pouvillon, astonishingly fat, was sitting on the table, idly swinging the electric pendant over his head; while Morenita occupied Villedo's armchair, and Villedo talked to Montfériot and another man in a corner. But a crowd of officials of the theatre ventured on Diaz' heels.
Madame, a few of us will meet there is it not so, Villedo? We shall count on you, madame. You have hidden yourself too long. I glanced at Diaz, and he nodded. As a fact, I wished to refuse; but I could not withstand the seduction of Morenita. She had a physical influence which was unique in my experience. 'I accept, I said.
And then the curtain rose, and La Vallière and Louis tripped mincingly forward to prove that after all they were Morenita and Montfériot, the darlings of their dear Paris, and utterly content with their exclusively Parisian reputation. Three times they came forward.
While as for Morenita and Diaz, the mere idea of these golden stars waiting on me, the librettist, effacing themselves, rendering themselves subordinate at such a moment, was fantastic. It passed the credible.... A Diaz standing silent and deferential, while an idolized prima donna stepped down from her throne to flatter me in her own temple!
"Querido," she murmured, caressingly, "why do you pretend not to see me when I pass?" "Because I don't love thee any more," said Nostromo, deliberately, after a moment of reflective silence. The hand on the mare's neck trembled suddenly. She dropped her head before all the eyes in the wide circle formed round the generous, the terrible, the inconstant Capataz de Cargadores, and his Morenita.
The adieux were exchanged, and there were more kisses. 'Au revoir! Bon voyage! Much success over there. The majority of these good, generous souls were in tears. Villedo opened a side-door, and we escaped into a corridor, only Morenita and one or two others accompanying us to the street. And on the pavement a carpet had been laid. The electric brougham was waiting.
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