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You would far rather have had a game of cards, wouldn't you now?" "I would far rather have had you at that infernal dance, so as to have had somebody to talk to," he retorted savagely. "Oh!" she said demurely, "that would never have done. Elsa must have such a lot to say to you herself. It would not be seemly for me to stand in the way." "Elsa, as you know, has that silly csárdás on the brain.
Had his picture another side for her imagination? It seemed possible enough; it may well have seemed possible to Princess Heinrich when she requested that Elsa should not read the speech. Princess Heinrich may have preferred that such notions should not be suggested at all under the circumstances of the case. There was always a meaning in what Princess Heinrich did.
"Read it," said the squire, forcing Caroline Fuller to sit down in his chair. "I'll spare him hearing the first of it," said Elsa. "It is what men write to women they love or feign to love, and it belongs to my sister. But here" she turned the first sheet inside out "listen to this." Involuntarily they all leaned forward, all except Durkee, who went over and stood beside Nat.
She is slowly, with bashful lowered eyes, mounting the stairs, when Ortrud, who in magnificent apparel has been following in her train, steps quickly before her, with the startling command, given in a furious voice: "Back, Elsa! I will no longer endure to follow you like a serving-maid! Everywhere shall you yield me precedence, and with proper deference bow before me!"
If Wetter were listening, he must have smiled at the peal of laughter that rang out from me over the terrace. I could not help it. Elsa started violently as I loosed her hands; now she looked up at me with frightened eyes that swam in tears. Her lips moved; she tried to speak to me. I was full of brutal things and had a horrible longing to say them to her.
"Why, yes," he said, as he rose from the table now and came up quite close to her, looking down with earnest, love-filled eyes on the stooping figure of this young girl, who held all his earthly happiness in her keeping; "you knew what I meant, Elsa, did you not, when I came back to you the moment that I could, after all these years? It was only my own poverty which kept me from your side all this long while. But you did not think that I had forgotten you, did you, Elsa? you could not think that. How could a man forget you who has once held you in his arms and kissed those sweet lips of yours? Why, there has not been a day or night that I did not think of you. .
You could almost hear the dull thud as it reached him. "Oh, I say, Elsa!" he gets out gaspy. "Of course I I wished to come, too." "Thank you," says she. "I wasn't sure. And now that you've brought him, may I hear what your young friend has to say, all by myself?" She even springs another one of them twisty smiles; but her head nods suggestive at the door.
Oh, Elsa," he returns to her side, "oh, that I might have waited but one year and been witness of your joy when, under protection of the Grail, your brother had returned to you, whom you thought dead!... When in the ripeness of time he comes home, and I am far away from him in life, you shall give him this horn, this sword, this ring...." He places in her hands the great double-edged sword, the golden horn from his side, the ring from his finger.
You talk like an old maid." "And I am one, by preference." "We are always quarreling, Martha; and it doesn't do either of us any good. When you oppose me, I find that that is the very thing I want to do. You haven't any diplomacy." "I would gladly cultivate it if I thought it would prove effectual," was the retort. "Try it," advised Elsa dryly.
For, of course, Deming sang constantly of the wonders of his native haunts, where wealth flowed out of the ground and the trolley system was the best in the world. Thus the Americanization of Villa Elsa was accomplished in the twinkling of an eye. No more did Gard hear of the Yankee pigs. No more did he hear of the disgusting Yankee billions.
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