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Updated: May 17, 2025
Next day the ordinary course of things was resumed at the Gezireh Palace Hotel, and the delights and flirtations of the fancy-ball began to vanish into what Hans Breitmann calls "the ewigkeit". Men were lazier than usual and came down later to breakfast, and girls looked worn and haggard with over-much dancing, but otherwise there was no sign to indicate that the festivity of the past evening had left "tracks behind," or made a lasting impression of importance on any human life.
But behind that mask I will watch! Oh, how I will watch! Not at my fancy-ball alone will I play a part, but before it, and perhaps, after it! None shall ever know how I watch, what I see, until I descend with the fell swoop of the eagle. And henceforth let me remember that I am a daughter of the house of Berners, who never failed a friend or spared a foe.
"How should I know?" said Tom, indifferently. "We were working hard at a dress a dress for a fancy-ball!" "A fancy-ball, Letty? What do you mean? You going to a fancy- ball!" "Me!" cried Letty, with merry laugh; "no, not quite me. Who do you think it was for?" "How should I know?" said Tom again, but not quite so indifferently; he was prepared to be annoyed. "For Mrs.
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