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How deftly, with scarcely more than a word, she had turned him from his task. Surely thus had Madame Sennier influenced, guided her husband. "I believe I could do anything with Claude," she said to herself that day. "Play me your Watson song again, Claudie," she said. "I do love it so." "It's only a trifle." "I love it!" she repeated. He sat down at the piano and played it to her once more.
"You make an excellent host, Claudie; you are so ready, so sympathetic! You listen so well, and look as if you really cared, whether you do or not. It's such a help to a man in his career to have a manner like yours. But I remember noticing it the first time I ever met you in Max Elliot's music-room. What a shame of Adelaide Shiffney not to come!" Her voice had suddenly changed.
But Paul Armstrong was feeble in rebellion against himself, and he was here caught firmly in the toils of the first passion of his manhood. The May Gold episode and the Claudie Belmont episode had long been things to laugh at.
"Did you tell her that I am a good boy? I am a very good boy; and so is Claudie." A leap and a grimace more astonishing than any he had yet accomplished sent Claude into fits of laughter. "I declare," said Miss Gertrude, looking down upon him, "I don't believe your mother would know you if she were to see you now! Why, there is quite a colour in his lips. He really seems better, doesn't he?"
He felt confused, strange, and then dépaysé. That word alone meant what he felt just then. Ah, the little house with the one big room looking out on to the scrap of garden, yellow-haired Fan, Harriet discreet unto dumbness, Mrs. Searle with her scraps of wisdom he with his freedom! The room was a cage, wire bars everywhere. Never could he work in it! "It is good for work, isn't it, Claudie?
Alston said he would drive with them to the hotel and take the cab on to his rooms in Madison Avenue. But when they reached the hotel Claude asked him to come in. "I can't go to bed," he said. "But, Claudie, it's past four," said Charmian. "I know. But after all this excitement sleep would be out of the question. Come in, Alston, we'll have something to eat, smoke a cigar, and try to quiet down."
"I used to be almost afraid of celebrity, I think. But now I want it, I need it. America has made me need it." "This is the country that wakes people up," said Alston. "It drives me almost mad!" cried Claude, with sudden violence. "Claudie!" exclaimed Charmian. "It does! There's something here that pumps nervous energy into one until one's body and mind seem to be swirling in a mill race.
In comparison with its glowing eloquence that never fails of its purpose, its wonderful truth to nature, the largeness of its ideas, and the artistic faultlessness of the machinery in this book, George Sand, with her Spiridon and Claudie, appears to us untrue and artificial; Dickens, with his but too faithful pictures from the popular life of London, petty; Bulwer, hectic and self-conscious.
"I see," she said slowly. "Yes, I see." She got up. "We simply must go to bed." "Come along then. But I feel as if I should never want to sleep again." "We must sleep. The verdict in advance yes, I see. But Adelaide might make a mistake." "She really has a flair." "I know. Oh, Claudie, the verdict!" They were now in their bedroom. Charmian sighed and put her arms round his neck.
He said there were great opportunities for new scenic effects." "He is going to take it! He is! He is!" she cried exultantly. "I knew he would. I always knew. Why, why do you look so grim, Claudie?" She threw one arm round his neck and kissed him. "Don't look like that when we are on the eve of everything we've been working for, waiting longing for, for months and years! Caroline! Caroline!"
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