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Briefly, we had seen the Dead Rat, the Abbey, the Bal Tabarin the Red Mill, Maxim's, and the rest of the lot to the total number of perhaps ten or twelve. We had listened to bad singing, looked on bad dancing, sipped gingerly at bad drinks, and nibbled daintily at bad food; and the taste of it all was as grit and ashes in our mouths.
Probably the man Grousset noticed my emotion, for he came to my rescue and said, politely, "Madame Moulton, j'ai eu l'honneur de vous voir a un bal a l'Hotel de Ville l'annee derniere." I looked up with surprise. He was a very handsome fellow, and I remembered quite well having seen him somewhere; but did not remember where.
Bracelets of dull, beaten metal hung about her wrists. In her hair were ornaments of some dull blue stone. Barbaric, beautiful, fascinating, savage she surely seemed as she met unruffled the startled gaze of these beautiful women of the court, who never, at even the most fanciful bal masque in all Paris, had seen costume like to this. "Ladies, la voil
Looking around them, they saw that the only Loon now remaining within reach was Bal Loon, the King, who had remained seated in his throne, watching the punishment of his people with a bewildered look in his purple eyes. "Shall I puncture the King?" the boy asked his companions.
The mother and daughter had returned late from rehearsal, and had just finished luncheon. Mrs. Bal had a letter in her hand, which had evidently arrived with a box of orchids, probably a tribute from Bennett; and the lady's desire to get us out of the way suggested the imminent arrival of a caller worth keeping to herself.
It seemed to me that the situation complicated itself, to Somerled's disadvantage; therefore it might be to the advantage of the next nearest man, myself. "There is some one," Mrs. Bal went on, with a slight but lessening constraint, "who rather likes me, and I rather like him better than I can remember liking anybody. He's got lots of money. His name is Morgan Bennett. Somerled you know him."
This act was the famous Partition of Bengal. The partition was a mere administrative measure, with no political intent. But the nationalists made it a "vital issue," and about this grievance they started an intense propaganda that soon filled India with seditious unrest. The leading spirit in this agitation was Bal Gangadhar Tilak, who has been called "the father of Indian unrest."
Enter Julia and Jacinta. Bal. Wou'd I had never married her to this Sot. Jul. Your pleasure, Sir. Fran. Only to see thee, Love. Jul. I have a Suit to you. Fran. What is't, my Chicken. Jul. I wou'd go make a Visit to my Aunt, my Sister Clara's there, and I'll go fetch her home. Fran. Hum perhaps the Governor's there too? Jul.
Denslow's rich wines poured away like water; everything soiled, smeared, and overturned; our entertainment, at first stately and gracious as a queen's drawing-room, ending, with the loss of prestige, in the riot of a bal masqué. So fades ambition! But to this duke."
The second day, when the two kings met, Shah Bal asked Azad Bakht the reason for bringing the Darweshes with him. Receiving these written orders, the divs were dispatched in all directions.
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