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Oh, to find a spot where we could be undisturbed, alone and unknown. That was the program. But Carmen simply could not be anywhere content if she were unnoticed. It was not so easy to give up daily luxury, and habits of ease at the expense of attendants, or the ostentation which had become a second nature.
"You seem to be in a brown study," said Carmen, who came up, leaning on the arm of the Earl of Chisholm. "I'm lost in admiration. You must make allowance, Miss Eschelle, for a person from the country." "Oh, we are all from the country. That is the beauty of it. There is Mr. Hollowell, used to drive a peddler's cart, or something of that sort, up in Maine, talking with Mr.
She had during the past day been through such new experiences; whereas, heretofore, every day had been pretty much the same. Sister Agatha waited patiently for Carmen to become calmer. At last, when she seemed to have forgotten her confusion about the text, Agatha said: "Now tell me the watchword."
I can't think how she could have failed. Did you hear any reason given?" "Yes, mademoiselle, I met Mr. Ulick Dean." "What did he say? He'd know." "He said that Mademoiselle Helbrun's was the true reading of the part. But 'Carmen' had lately been turned into a femme de la balle, and, of course, since the public had tasted realism it wanted more. I thought Mademoiselle Helbrun rather cold.
But when the big clock in the Manor struck ten, and he took out his great antique silver watch, to see if the two marched to the second, he would go to the door, look out into the night, say, "All's well, thank the good God," and would go to bed, very often forgetting to kiss Carmen, and even forgetting his darling little Zoe.
But never had Carmen taken more pains than to-night, when she expected only one guest. Her white chiffon and silver tissue might have been a wedding gown. She adored jewellery, and had been almost a slave to her love for it, until she began to value something else more something which, unfortunately, her money could not buy, though she hoped and prayed her face might win it.
"'Five thousand louis d'ors, or one hundred thousand francs. "'Are you crazy? One hundred thousand francs for a chicken? "'Your excellency is not aware how hard it is to get chickens in this neighborhood." "Well, and how did the matter end?" asked Carmen. "I sent the chicken back, and asked for a piece of bread. It was brought to me by Battista, another bandit, on a silver salver.
Henderson himself was under less illusion; the world was about what he had taken it for, only a little worse more gullible, and with less principle. Carmen had mocked at Margaret's belief in Henderson. It is certainly a pitiful outcome that Margaret, with her naturally believing nature, should in the end have had a less clear perception of what was right and wrong than Henderson himself.
The news had already reached the Eschelles, and Carmen, Margaret said, had written to the new earl a most pious note, which contained no allusion to his change of fortune, except an expression of sympathy with his now enlarged opportunity for carrying on his philanthropic plans a most unworldly note.
He spoke quite gently and sincerely. "I don't know what set me into this moralizing. Let's look at the plans." The next day it was the first of June in consultation with the architect, a project was broached that involved such an addition of cost that Carmen hesitated. She declared that it was a question of ways and means, and that she must consult the chairman.
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