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I would fain show some kindness to every one in the world, even to your Queen, who has brought all these troubles upon me." The new-born hope had transformed the despairing woman into a happy one, and Charmian perceived it with grateful joy, secretly wishing that Cleopatra had listened to her appeal.
"Hum!" said I cautiously, and with the air of turning this over in my mind. "Vegetables tenpence!" "To be sure," said I, nodding my head, "tenpence, certainly." "Excellent!" said I recklessly, whereat Charmian immediately frowned at me. "Oh, Peter!" said she, with a sigh of resignation, "you possess absolutely no idea of proportion.
"Take off that thick coat, Charmian, and come and talk to us." "Shall I?" She unbuttoned the fur slowly. Claude helped her to take it off. As she emerged he thought, "How slim she is!" He had often before looked at girls and wondered at their slimness, and thought that it seemed part of their mystery. It both attracted and repelled him.
"No," said Charmian, still intent upon the twig, "I have neither friends nor family nor money, and so being hungry I came back here, and ate up all the bacon." "Why, I hadn't left much, if I remember." "Six slices!" Now, as she stood, half in shadow, half in moonlight, I could not help but be conscious of her loveliness.
Charmian haunted the opera house, but was seldom actually with Claude there, though she often saw him on the stage or in the orchestra, heard him discussing points concerning his work. And Claude was very often away, when rehearsals did not demand his attention, visiting the singers who were to appear in the opera, going through their rôles with them, trying to imbue them with his exact meaning.
Supper being over and done, Charmian must needs take my coat, despite my protests, and fall to work upon its threadbare shabbiness, mending a great rent in the sleeve.
A roguish smile deepened the dimples in her cheeks as she spoke, and delight in her bewitching grace forced from Charmian's lips the exclamation: "If Mark Antony could only see you now!" "Flatterer!" replied the Queen with a grateful smile. But Charmian felt that the time had now come to plead once more for Barine, and she began eagerly: "No, I certainly do not flatter.
It was addressed to Charmian, and contained a folded slip of green paper, which fell to the ground as she opened the note. Claude picked it up. "What is it?" said Charmian. "A box ticket for the Metropolitan. It must be for Sennier's first night, I suppose." "It is!" said Charmian, who had looked at the note. In a moment she gave it to Claude without comment. RITZ-CARLTON HOTEL. Feb. 28th
"That you shall learn later," replied Charmian advancing. "But when you do know, you will have still better reason to doubt my love; yet it was only to save one dear to me from misery, certainly not to grieve you, that I stepped between you and Barine.
I know that she understood what was passing fully and perfectly, and how deeply she felt it; but pain placed itself between her and the 'chief good, and she mastered it. And when she sat at work, with what tenacious power the delicate creature struggled until she had conquered the hardest task and outstripped Charmian and even me!
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