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She has got some marvellous diamond earrings that were given to her by a Grand Duke, and she has lots of money. She runs a theatre, because she likes a certain actor, and she pays Mr. Amarinth's younger brother to go about with her and converse. He is very fat, and very uncouth, but he talks well. Madame Valtesi has a great deal of influence." "In what department of life?"
Madame Valtesi was already attired in her trousseau. She had travelled down from London in a shady straw hat trimmed with pink roses. A white veil swept loosely round her face; she carried in her hand an attenuated mottled cane, with an elaborate silver top. A black fan hung from her waist by a thin silver chain, and, as usual, she was peering through her eyeglasses at her surroundings. Mr.
"However," said Mrs. Windsor, "I daresay it won't much matter for once in a way, will it? It is no good making ourselves miserable about comparative trifles." "He might leave out a curse or two when he next reads the Commination Service, and balance matters in that way," said Madame Valtesi, aside to Amarinth. "The rusticity of the service was quite delicious," Mrs. Windsor went on graciously.
They had finished trying the divorce case. "What is that about intelligence?" Madame Valtesi asked croakily. "Dear Lady!" said Esmé, getting up out of his chair slowly, "intelligence is the demon of our age. Mine bores me horribly. I am always trying to find a remedy for it. I have experimented with absinthe, but gained no result. I have read the collected works of Walter Besant.
"I must say I prefer them to Lady Jeune's," said Mrs. Windsor. "Lady Jeune catches society by the throat and worries it," said Madame Valtesi. "She worries it very inartistically," added Lord Reggie. "Ah!" said Amarinth, as the ladies rose to go into the drawing-room; "she makes one great mistake.
They looked very cool, very much at their ease, and very well inclined for tea. Reggie's face was rather white, and the look in his blue eyes suggested that London was getting altogether the better of him. "Wholesome things almost always disagree with me," said Madame Valtesi, in her croaky voice, "unless I eat them at the wrong time.
"What is he doing?" whispered Madame Valtesi to Amarinth. "Is it in the thirty-nine articles?" "No," replied Esmé; "he is only getting up from his seat. How wonderful he is! I never heard anything more impressive in my life. After all, unpremeditated art is the greatest art. Such an effect as that could never have been produced except impromptu."
She impressed the children as much as Madame Valtesi frightened them by examining them with a stony and sphinx-like gravity through her tortoise-shell eyeglass.
Haven't you noticed that although the sinner takes no sort of interest in the saint, the saint has always an uneasy curiosity about the doings of the sinner? It is a case of the County Council and Zaeo's back over and over again." "Yes, we love examining each other's backs," said Madame Valtesi. Esmé Amarinth sighed musically and very loudly, and remarked "Faith is the most plural thing I know.
The anthem passed off fairly well, although Jimmy Sands went rather flat, perhaps owing to the fact that none of the party from the cottage so much as glanced at him during his performance. "He evidently made allowance for our staring," Madame Valtesi said afterwards. "However, it can't be helped; we shall know better another time.
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