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She came in now with her books an English grammar and a volume of translations under her arm, and seeing that Gemma was watching her, she took her parcel with a carefully expressionless phrase of thanks to Carmela, who was anxious to cut the string, and carried it into her room unopened. It was the tea-basket Jean Avenel had promised her.
She had almost all the honors of the quadrille, and if she were envious of the Count of San-Felice's daughter, we will not undertake to say that Carmela was not jealous of her. And with overpowering compliments her handsome cavalier led her back to the place whence he had taken her, and where Luigi awaited her.
If only you could persuade her to give up Orazio. Surely the other man would come forward then. You and Maria talk of getting her safely married and away, but I see farther. There can be no safety in union with the wrong man " Carmela shook her head. "She wants a husband," she said stolidly, "and Orazio will make a good one. You do not understand us, my dear.
He was searching for Iris, who had been compelled by Coke and Bulmer and her uncle to take shelter behind the score of sailors who still remained at Las Flores. "It is true, nevertheless," he said laconically. "I knew the game was lost, so I came here to try and save a lady." "Ah our Carmela? You thought of her?" "No!" Then the spell passed from Carmela. She literally threw herself on her lover.
Oh, I've been so boiling at you ever since I heard your name that I couldn't hardly keep my tongue still, to think of that great beautiful car out there and how much it must have cost, and to hear you speak of one of your other cars as if you had millions of them, and to think of little Carmela living down in the basement room of Number 18 in your block, growing whiter and whiter every day, with her great blue eyes and her soft fine wavy hair, and that hungry eager look in her face.
Father will be so glad, and so will Carmela and Jack, and Librada and Ned. Harvey dear, I do hope your sisters will like me. Perhaps they will think I am only a native girl.... Oh, do be careful, I can see Maoni's back shaking. She knows you're kissing me, I'm sure." "Don't care if she does; don't care if she sees me kissing you, like this, and this, and this; don't care if Atkins sees us."
Believe us, yours devotedly, "MARIA, GEMMA and CARMELA." Olive read it carefully twice over, and then sat down at the table and began to scribble on the back of the envelope. She convinced herself that three times fifteen was forty-five, and that so many lire amounted to not quite two pounds. Then there was the fare out to be reckoned.
Carmela had not seen the place during five years; she expected to find changes, but was hardly prepared for the ravages made by neglect, aided by unchecked tropical growth, as the outcome of her father's two years in prison. The flowers were gone, the rarer shrubs choked by rank weeds, the trees disfigured by rampant climbers.
Carmela stirred her tea thoughtfully. "Ah!" she said. "How nice these spoons are. I wish you would tell me who gave them to you." She helped herself to another cake. "Gemma is difficult, and we shall all be glad when September comes and she is safely married. She is lazy. You have seen us of a morning, cutting out, basting, stitching at her wedding clothes, while she sits with her hands folded.
"I must go through the dining-room to get to my room," Olive said uncertainly. "What shall I do? Pass through very quickly or wait here in the passage?" "Better go in," advised Carmela. "They may not even notice you. He keeps on talking so loudly, and aunt and Maria are crying." "Poor things! I am so sorry!"
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