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Mollie Gretna had run off to Kilfane, and could be heard talking loudly in another room; but, called by Mrs. Sin, she now returned, wide-eyed with excitement. Mrs. Sin cast a lightning glance at Sir Lucien, and then addressed Rita. "Which of these three rooms you choose?" she asked, revealing her teeth in one of those rapid smiles which were mirthless as the eternal smile of Sin Sin Wa.
"They burst from drawers," pursued Rita, enjoying herself immensely; "they toppled like snow-drifts; they strewed the floor to a depth of " "Oh, Rita, Rita! do rein your Pegasus in, or he will fly away altogether.
I had fixed up a blind over the window and had drawn it down, so that no more imaginary peering faces would disturb the harmony of our lesson and our conversation. How long we sat there by the stove, I could not say; but Rita was soft, and gentle, and tender that night, sweet, suppliant and loving. She was all woman. When our lesson was over, she sat at my feet as usual.
At the other end of the apartment, close to the open window, through which she intently gazed, was a being of very different mould. On a high-backed elbow-chair of ancient oak sat Rita de Villabuena, pensive and anxious, her fair face and golden tresses seeming fairer and brighter from the contrast with the dark quaint carving against which they reposed.
A chandu party took place at the American's flat in Duke Street, and Rita, who had been invited, and who had consented to go with Sir Lucien Pyne, met there for the first time the woman variously known as "Lola" and "Mrs. Sin." From the restaurant at which she had had supper with Sir Lucien, Rita proceeded to Duke Street.
Rita lay with her head hanging over the couch. Her lips were opened. Her teeth gleamed like little deaths. She lay motionless as Mallare had flung her. Goliath shuffled to the couch. His huge black face stared over her closed eyes. He remembered that he had thrown the girl against the wall and he paused. The street was black. Great shadows balanced themselves on his eyes.
Captain Norton agreed with Carlos; and as Rita had now recovered from her fright, we continued our course as before. Getting clear of the hummock, we were now in more open ground. In a short time a hut came in sight, then another and another, and we found that we were in the suburbs of Roseville. The huts varied in character, though most were of the roughest description.
Monte Irvin drew her arm under his own and led her back to meet the car, which the chauffeur had turned and which was now approaching. "I will drive you home," he said, "and if I may call in the morning. I should like to do so." Rita nodded. She could not trust herself to speak again.
But when I think that I have brought suffering to you, I am almost wild." The girl's hands were folded demurely upon her lap, and she was gazing down at them. She lifted her eyes for an instant, and there was an unwonted hardness in them as she answered: "You need not waste any sympathy on me. I don't want it." "Is it really true, Rita," he asked, "that you no longer care for me?
But she soon laughed and became happy once more. "Rita, would you like to be able to talk English, proper English, just as it should be talked? Would you care to learn English Grammar?" I asked, changing the subject partly. She came close to me on the veranda steps with a jump. "Say that over again, George. I want to get it right," she said plaintively.
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