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Drack and to rise to her expectation she had seen and felt herself act, had above all admired herself, and had at any rate known what she said, even though losing, at her altitude, any distinctness in the others. She could have repeated later on the detail of her performance if she hadn't preferred to keep it with her as a mere locked-up, a mere unhandled treasure.
"Here ees my scheme I go out mit der master, ve draws der vischtlers on our drack. Montame kan go to Montemoiselle Clerchet; nopody vill vollow her. I haf a horse; I take de master oop behint; und der teufel is in it if they katches us." "Very well; good-bye, dear," said poor Eve, springing to her husband's arms; "none of us can go to see you, the risk is too great.
He could make people, even people like these two and whom there were still other people to envy, he could make them push and snatch and scramble like that and then remain as incapable of taking her from the hands of such patrons as of receiving her straight, say, from those of Mrs. Drack.
Pitman didn't call rings anything. "I've given Mrs. Drack a ring." Julia stared. "Then aren't you her lover?" "That, dear child," he humorously wailed, "is what I want you to find out! But I'll handle your rings all right," he more lucidly added. "You'll 'handle' them?" "I'll fix your lovers. I'll lie about them, if that's all you want."
Schultze shrugged his huge shoulders and thoughtfully flicked the ashes from his cigar into the consomme. "You know, Laadham," he said slowly, "dey don't pick up diamonds like dose on der streed gorners. I didn't believe dere vas a stone of so bigness in der Unided States whose owner I didn't know id vas. Dose dat are here I haf bring in myself, mostly dose I did not I haf kept drack of.
She let him hear then everything, in spite of feeling herself slip, while she did so, to some doom as yet incalculable; she went on very much as she had done for Mr. Pitman and Mrs. Drack, with the rage of desperation and, as she was afterward to call it to herself, the fascination of the abyss.
Drack as the charming young friend he had told her so much about and who had been as an angel to him in a weary time; he was saying that the loveliest chance in the world, this accident of a meeting in those promiscuous halls, had placed within his reach the pleasure of bringing them together.
David E. Drack, yet neither was she ominously bold; she was bland and "good," Julia made sure at a glance, and of a large complacency, as the good and the bland are apt to be a large complacency, a large sentimentality, a large innocent, elephantine archness: she fairly rioted in that dimension of size.
And more of them than Mrs. Drack, I guess," Julia quavered. "Oh, I know what they've got!" He took it from her with the effect of a vague stir, in his long person, of unwelcome embarrassment. But was she going to give up because he was embarrassed? He should know at least what he was costing her. It came home to her own spirit more than ever, but meanwhile he had found his footing.
Drack, who had supervened while they talked, stood, in monstrous magnitude at least to Julia's reimpressed eyes between them: she was the lady our young woman had descried across the room, and she had drawn near while the interest of their issue so held them.
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