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Gilman gave thanksgivings and departed, explaining that he must return to Madame Piriac. Foa and Dauphin and the Oriental resumed the argument about Musa's talent and the concert. Miquette would say nothing as to the success of the concert. Foa asserted that the concert was not and would not be a success. Dauphin pooh-poohed and insisted vehemently that the success was unmistakable and increasing.
When he had finished she held her breath.... The applause, after an instant, was sudden and extremely cordial. Monsieur Foa loudly clapped, smiling at Audrey. Roussel patted Musa on the back and chattered to him fondly. On each side of her Audrey could catch murmured exclamations of delight.
While these two waited in the antechamber, Monsieur Foa said suddenly in a confidential tone to Audrey: "He is charming, Musa, quite charming." "Did you like his playing?" Audrey demanded boldly. She could not understand why it should be necessary for a violinist to play and to succeed at this house before he could capture Paris.
She was a slim blonde Italian of pure descent, whereas only the paternal grandfather of Monsieur Foa had been Italian. Madame Foa, who had called on Audrey at the Danube, exhibited the same symptoms of pleasure as her husband. "But your friend? But your friend?" cried she.
The entire company was sitting or standing round the table in the dining-room. It was a table at which eight might have sat down to dinner with a fair amount of comfort; and perhaps thirty-eight now were successfully claiming an interest in it. Not at the end, but about a third of the way down one side, Madame Foa brewed tea in a copper receptacle over a spirit lamp.
A week of practice lost is eternally lost. And on Wednesday one had invited me to play at Foa's. And I cannot." "Foa? Who is Foa?" "What! You do not know Foa? In order to succeed it is necessary, it is essential, to play at Foa's. That alone gives the cachet. Dauphin told me last week. He arranged it. After having played at Foa's all is possible. Dauphin was about to abandon me when he met Foa.
He was the rock and the cushion. She would send Miss Ingate out for the afternoon. As the audience hurried eagerly forth she spoke sharply to Miss Ingate. She was indeed very rude to Miss Ingate. She was exasperated, and Miss Ingate happened to be handy. In the foyer not a trace of the Foa clan nor of Madame Piriac and her husband, nor of Mr. Gilman!
Roussel sat down to the piano. Musa tuned his fiddle. "From what appears," murmured Monsieur Foa to nobody in particular, with an ecstatic expectant smile on his face, "this Musa is all that is most amazing." Then, in the silence, the clanging sound was renewed, and the fox-terrier reacted. "André, my friend," cried Madame Foa, skipping into the hall.
But Foa was not investigating the influence of somatic characters on ova in the grafted ovaries, and does not even mention the characters or breed of the rabbits he used or of the young which were produced from the grafted ovaries. Out of all these only one grafted female produced young.
The morrow had no sort of importance. The hour was scarcely one o'clock. Other guests were expected.... Madame Piriac alone knew how to handle the situation; she appealed privately to Madame Foa. Having appealed to Madame Foa, she disappeared with Madame Foa, and could not be found when Audrey and Miss Ingate were ready to leave.
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