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Updated: June 22, 2025
But the leading lady stuck to him, and at last he went away. 'Now, my dear, said Miss Belmont to Paul. 'I'll shepherd you. You're mostly with me, and so long as we're together you're safe. Darco's a darling when you know him, but he's enough to break a beginner's heart. Now, dears she appealed here to her whole public 'put your hearts into it, and help the young gentleman through.
'We bestow on him unanimously the order of the golden brick. Darco's health was toasted, and the company went to rehearsal again, each with a champagne-glass in one hand and a sandwich in the other, and worked banqueting. Paul drank a glass of wine, and the coming night looked less terrible. 'We've two hours clear,'said Miss Belmont 'Now see if we don't make something of you in that time.
But when London was reached, and the physical fatigue of travel shaken off, and the tornado of Darco's energies had engulfed him as of old, he found himself another man. Darco was terrible at their earliest interview. 'Led me haf a look at you, he said, dragging Paul to his study-window. 'What haf you peen doing with yourseluf?
The night went by in a sort of fog, but Paul read his lines somehow, and made his crosses at the right places; and actors are eager to answer to any little courtesy from a manager, and Darco's half-dozen of champagne was richly paid for by the élan with which everybody played.
I could not bear to think that you had imperilled your prospects for my sake. 'I care for nothing in the world but you, said Paul. He played honest coin against counters. 'It is sweet to hear you say so, said the sisterly Claudia, and she was so touched by his devotion that she allowed him to kiss her almost as wildly as he wished to do. An hour or two later Paul was in Darco's presence.
Was that voluptuous when she held him to a brother's part, and soothed his passions into slumber with quiet talk of sweet and sober things? And yet in Darco's face, to one who knew him as well as Paul did, there had been a mournful look when he had spoken of the most dangerous of all the daughters of the horse-leech. Out with the thought out with it 'trample it down!
He was leaving her at the very time at which she most needed his guardianship and care, and at the hour, too, when she seemed first really to confide in him and cling to him. His eyes were moist when he held her in a last embrace, and ran into the street in answer to Darco's final call.
Then his mind flew to Claudia, and he thought how tender she had been that afternoon, how confiding, how warm, yet how delicately reticent in conduct Then he flamed and held his arms out in the darkness, and swore to be constant to that lovely creature, that maddening, dazzling, priceless idol, for ever. Then, like a stinging douche to a man in ardent heat of blood, came Darco's saying.
When a man has once learned to distrust his own raptures they do not rise easily. He took up his quarters with Darco, and they worked all day together, and, on occasion, far into the night, for they were entered on a race against time, and an extended run of the piece which then held the stage at Darco's theatre meant loss.
So at four times the original sum Paul's salary was fixed, and he began to feel himself a man of consequence. 'I am Mr. Darco's private secretary, he was told to say to people with whom he was empowered to deal. 'I am entirely in Mr. Darco's confidence, and you may deal with me exactly as if Mr. Darco were here.
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