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Updated: May 8, 2025
"You won't write to him?" she gasped. "No." "Why, what shall I do-o-o-o?" demanded Lily, prolonging the syllable in a burst of grief and astonishment. "I don't know," answered Elmore. "Owen," cried his wife, interfering for the first time, in response to the look of appeal that Lily turned upon her, "you must write!" "Celia," he retorted boldly, "I won't write.
"It is no use," he said. "My voice is all broken to pieces now, because I sang too much before." "Perhaps it will come back," said the musician kindly, seeing the tears in the young fellow's eyes. "See, we will try a scale." He struck a chord. "Now, open your mouth so Do-o-o-o!" He sang a long note. Nino could not resist any longer, whether he had any voice or not.
'How could you allow such an absurd thing to happen? he said, in a stern, though trembling voice. 'You knew I might mistake. I had no idea you were in the house: I thought you were miles away, at Sandbourne or somewhere! But I see: it is just done for a joke, ha-ha! This made Picotee rather worse still. 'O-O-O-O! she replied, in the tone of pouring from a bottle. 'What shall I do-o-o-o!
And there were two or three other fellows with badges on that went around shouting: "Select your podners for the next quadrille! One more couple wanted right over here!" Dancing. M-hm. The fiddler "called off" and chanted to the tune, with his mouth on one side: "Sullootch podners! First couple forward and back. Side couples the same. Doe see do-o-o-o.
He blushed red and turned away, but he opened his mouth and made a sound. "Do-o-o-o!" He sang like the master, but much weaker. "Not so bad; now the next, Re-e-e!" Nino followed him. And so on, up the scale. After a few more notes, De Pretis ceased to smile, and cried, "Go on, go on!" after every note, authoritatively, and in quite a different manner from his first kindly encouragement.
"But please, ma'am," pleaded Tottie, with such an earnest face that the woman was touched, "it's a matter of of life an' death at least it may be so. Oh! do-o-o-o tell 'im he's wanted by Tottie Bones. Only say Tottie Bones, that'll be sure to bring 'im out."
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