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It represents a sort of pun in symbolism. There are two Chinese characters both pronounced setsu one signifying the node or joint of the bamboo, and the other virtue, fidelity, constancy. Therefore is the bamboo used as a felicitous sign. The name 'Setsu, be it observed, is often given to Japanese maidens just as the names 'Faith, 'Fidelia, and 'Constance' are given to English girls.
"Know you not, young man, that you are committing a breach of the peace?" remarked the notary, regarding the intrusion with the eye of a lawyer. The wild figure answered them all at once: "I am Alberto, and I come to rend this impious contract thus thus thus!" Fidelia, astonished at the turn events were taking, leaned back in her chair, and looked on silently.
Before she could make the other down stroke which was necessary to complete her signature, a wild figure, with hair dishevelled, and other evidences of hasty purpose, burst upon the stage. Fidelia paused; all stood back; and gentlemen who had swords laid hands on them. "Who is this?" asked the Father, with mercantile calmness. "Who dares thus break in upon my happiness?" inquired Signor Rodicaso.
He was up betimes, careering about the garden with all his sisters after him, imperiously ordering them about, but nevertheless bewitching them all, so that Amoretta was in ecstasies at her own preferment, scarcely realising that it would divide her from the others; while Letty made sure that she should soon follow, and Fidelia gravely said, "I shall always know you are loving me still, Amy, as Nurse Rolfe does."
"I'm the very onliest one that goes trailing a long tail behind them. Neither Dolly, Molly, Patty, Fidelia, Topsy, nor Tiny wears a long tail. I want to look like my twin sister. Say, Tiny, did it hurt awfully when Buster snipped off your tail?" "It hurt dreadfully! And it bled and bled. But Limpy-toes cured it," remembered Tiny. "And now no one can step on your tail. That hurts dreadfully, too.
"Now, don't lecture!" "But Shepler is one of the richest men in New York." "Dad already suspects as much." "And he's kind, he's a big-hearted chap, a man of the world, generous a " "'A woman fancier, Fidelia Oldaker calls him." "My dear, if he fancies you " "There, you old conservative, I've heard all his good points, and my duty has been written before me in letters of fire.
One whole scene is almost translated from the Critique de l'École des Femmes. Fidelia is Shakespeare's Viola stolen, and marred in the stealing; and the Widow Blackacre, beyond comparison Wycherley's best comic character, is the Countess in Racine's Plaideurs, talking the jargon of English instead of that of French chicane.
At four o'clock he had received a hasty note signed "Fidelia Oldaker," penned in the fine, precise script of some young ladies' finishing school perhaps extinct now for fifty years imploring him, if aught of chivalry survived within his breast, to fetch his young grandfather and dine with her that evening.
Fidelia languidly waved a jewelled fan, and sighed. "Will he never come?" said she. She emitted a small shriek, and gave him her hand to kiss, which he did with ecstasy.
He was observed, by those who watched him narrowly, to send a pleasant wink and nod to Bidette, who responded with a scarcely perceptible pout. On the entrance of Signor Rodicaso and friends, Fidelia rose, turned toward them, and made a profound courtesy, as if to signify her abject submission.
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