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On pretence of asking Adam's advice, Thaddeus had left Malaga's letter with him, as if by mistake. "Poor Thaddeus!" said Adam, as Paz disappeared, "what a misfortune for a man of his distinction to be the plaything of the lowest kind of circus-rider. He will lose everything, and get lower and lower, and won't be recognizable before long.
He found himself in the position of a circus-rider who, with one foot on the white horse which was Honour and the other on the piebald which was duty and a King's instructions, has lost control of their heads and feels his unhappy legs drawn wider and wider apart with every stride.
It was Tatiana Paulina that "queer Christian name, half Russian too," of the dancing circus-rider, that no one had ever mentioned, Tatiana Paulina Valenka! "Must I go now in the moonlight clear? Would God that it were dark, That I might pass like a homeless hound Men neither miss nor mark." The Ransom. I sat as still as if I had been stabbed.
"Well, that's a stiff one!" said Marguerite Turquet, looking at Madame Chapuzot; "I'm half afraid he is wheedling me, to carry out some fancy of his own Pooh! I'll risk it." A month after this eccentric interview the circus-rider was living in a comfortable apartment furnished by Comte Adam's own upholsterer, Paz having judged it desirable to have his folly talked about at the hotel Laginski.
Where did you get it?" The Italian was still smiling, but his eyes were wary. "From a little circus-rider in California," he said. "A child an imp of a child astonishingly clever a wisp of inspiration. Yes, a girl of course; but she had all the lines of a boy the perfect limbs of an athlete. I took her from her circus. I should have paid her well had she remained with me.
And still in the distracted distance we beheld the tumults of the outer concentric circles, and saw successive pods of whales, eight or ten in each, swiftly going round and round, like multiplied spans of horses in a ring; and so closely shoulder to shoulder, that a Titanic circus-rider might easily have over-arched the middle ones, and so have gone round on their backs.
It seems that this illustrious emperor, in a fit of passion, ordered the slaughter of the people of Thessalonica, because they had arisen and killed some half-a-dozen of the officers of the government, in a sedition, on account of the imprisonment of a favorite circus-rider. The wrath of Theodosius knew no bounds.
He had exhausted the contents of one canteen, had gone to his saddle for the other, when far to the south he saw the wagon. He had waved his hat high above his head, standing like a circus-rider in the saddle, and had emptied the cylinder of his revolver into the air. He had seen that the driver had heard him, that he had fired an answering volley, that he had turned westward.
The Pole, it was agreed on all sides, was the best sort of man a circus-rider had ever encountered, not fault-finding nor jealous, and willing to let Malaga do just what she liked. "Some women have the luck of it," said Malaga's rival, "and I'm not one of them, though I do draw a third of the receipts."
Paz informs the wife that the leanness which hazard and debauchery have caused to the domestic exchequer is due to his extravagance, the husband having lent him money. She does not believe, and Paz feigns an intrigue with a circus-rider in order to lull all suspicions. She says to her adored spouse, "Get rid of this extravagant friend! Away with him! He is a profligate, a gambler! A drunkard!"
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