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'Doubtless by a mistake of my father's, dear lady; quite unpardonable since you are displeased! If he had lived, he certainly would have rectified it to please you, but the Turks killed him when I was a baby in arms; and that was before you were born. 'Of course it was, answered Madame Bonanni, who must have been just about to be married at that time.
But I can tell you one thing, little Miss Donne! A great, good-natured laugh rolled out before Madame Bonanni proceeded to state the one thing she could tell. 'When you have sung the waltz song in Romeo and Juliet, and the duo in the fifth act, to four or five of the men who make a living out of us artists, you will be surprised at what happens afterwards!
'They won't try it now, she said, at last, very confidently. The maid shrugged her thin shoulders, as if to say that she declined to take any responsibility in the matter, and did not otherwise care much. 'Do exactly as I told you, Madame Bonanni said. 'If anything goes wrong, it will be my fault, not yours. 'Very good, Madame, answered the maid.
Madame Bonanni's proceedings had made an impression on her which it would be hard to forget, and she sat silent for a while, not tasting what followed. 'Logotheti, said Madame Bonanni later, with her mouth full of strawberries and cream, 'you must do something for me. 'An investment, dear lady? I suppose you want some of the bonds of the new electric road, don't you?
The old singer was of a very different type from Madame Bonanni, and had never enjoyed such supremacy as the latter, even for a few months.
Madame Bonanni pushed up the handkerchief between her face and her elbow and moved it about, with a vague idea of equalising her colour in one general tint, then blew her nose, and then sprang to her feet at once, with that wonderful elasticity which was always so surprising in her sudden movements. Moreover, she got up turning her face away from Margaret, and made for the nearest mirror.
But Madame is in her bath, observed the servant, showing no inclination to let Margaret pass. 'Mademoiselle would do better to come another day. 'But Madame Bonanni has given me an appointment. 'It is possible, the man replied, still smiling calmly. 'I have come to sing to her, Margaret said, with a little impatience. 'Ah then it is different! He positively beamed.
'But is there no way of protecting oneself? Margaret asked. 'It is absurd! cried Madame Bonanni. 'I don't believe in germs and microbes and such silly things! If they exist we are full of them, and I have no doubt they do us good. 'It would be just as easy to boil the forks and spoons for ten minutes in clean water, after they are washed, observed Logotheti. 'But after all, fingers are safer.
She went away, and Madame Bonanni returned to her seat in the front of the box, without any apparent intention of explaining matters to Lushington. 'What is happening? he asked after a few moments. 'Can I be of any use? 'Not yet, answered his mother. 'But you may be, by and by. I shall want you to take a message to her. 'To Miss Donne? When? 'Have you ever been behind in this theatre?
She shrugged her shoulders again, and laughed a little harshly as she gave a half-shy glance at Margaret. The latter was not a child, but a grown woman of two-and-twenty. She answered gravely. 'With your voice and talent, I don't see why you needed any protection, as you call it. Madame Bonanni laughed again. 'No? You don't see?
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