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Updated: May 26, 2025
He had begun well, which was more than usual. She did not expect him to finish. She thanked him with a look of more than gratitude. "Jim," she said, "I've found out that my husband is well there's a certain ex-dancer named L'Etoile, and he she they " Instead of being astounded, Dyckman was glum. "Oh, you've found that out at last, have you?
Considering all the frills of fiction that were put into the story to make it readable, the careless inaccuracies that were edited into it, and the fact that many persons knew of the preliminary attempts to buy any old bear and fake a capture, it is not strange that people who always know the "inside history" of everything that happens, wag their heads wisely and declare that Monarch was obtained from a bankrupt circus, or is an ex-dancer of the streets sold to the newspaper by a hard-up Italian.
It was a pity, no doubt, that the light of opera shone but dimly at the Haymarket, yet the ill wind which almost extinguished that light blew a blessing towards the nimble Santlow. For the dear creature prospered exceeding well as Dorcas Zeal; the heart of the public waxed warm toward the ex-dancer, and so did the cardiac organ of Barton Booth.
Is it possible to see him for an instant, and not come to the conclusion that he is the walking gentleman who wears a blue surtout, clean collar, and white trousers, for half an hour, and then shrinks into his worn-out scanty clothes: who has to boast night after night of his splendid fortune, with the painful consciousness of a pound a-week and his boots to find; to talk of his father’s mansion in the country, with a dreary recollection of his own two-pair back, in the New Cut; and to be envied and flattered as the favoured lover of a rich heiress, remembering all the while that the ex-dancer at home is in the family way, and out of an engagement?
He said the affair was vulgar, and he sent her a large diamond bracelet, and never spoke to her again!" Tamara felt her cheeks burn and her pride galled her more than ever. So she and the ex-dancer were in the same boat? but she at least would not try to commit suicide and be restored by salad oil! "How perfectly ridiculous!" she said, with rather a bitter little laugh. "What complete bathos!"
Antony Dart bent forward in his chair. He looked far into the eyes of the ex-dancer as if some unseen thing within them might answer him. Miss Montaubyn herself for the moment he did not see. "What," he stammered hoarsely, his voice broken with awe, "what of the hideous wrongs the woes and horrors and hideous wrongs?"
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