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Updated: May 31, 2025
The several islands lying N.W. of Tongatabou, namely ANAMOUKA, KOMANGO, KOTOU, LEFOUGA, FOA, etc., are seen in Captain Cook's chart to be fringed by reefs, in several of them are connected together.
"And now," said Madame Foa in English, sitting down intimately beside Audrey, with a loving gesture, "We will have a little talk, you and I. I find our friend Madame Piriac met you last year." "Ah! Yes," murmured Audrey, fatally struck, but admirably dissembling, for she was determined to achieve the evening successfully. "Madame Piriac, will she come to-night?" "I fear not," replied Madame Foa.
Musa's violin case lay amid the cushions therein. The chauffeur approvingly touched his hat. The Rue d'Aumale was a good street. "I wonder what his surname is?" Audrey thought curiously. "And whether he's in love or married, and has children." She knew nothing of him save that his Christian name was Michel. She was taciturn and severe with Musa. "Monsieur Foa which floor?"
He clapped his hand to his forehead in despair of the French. Then the clanging sound supervened, and the little fox-terrier yapped, and Monsieur Foa went out, ejaculating "Ah!" and Madame Foa went into the doorway. Audrey glanced round for Musa, but he was out of sight in the dining-room.
"Now," thought Audrey, "they will ask Musa." Then one of the composers played the piano, his themes punctuated by the clanging sound and by the dog. The room was asphyxiating, but no one except Audrey seemed to be inconvenienced. Then several guests rang in quick succession. "Madame!" the suave and ardent voice of Foa could be heard in the entrance-hall.
Madame Foa, you will bring her. I count on you absolutely to bring her. Even if it is only to be a sketch the merest hint. But I must do it." "Oh, yes, Madame," said Madame Foa with all the Italian charm. "Dauphin must paint you. The contrary is unthinkable. My husband and I have often said so." "To-morrow?" Dauphin suggested. "Ah! To-morrow, my little Dauphin, I cannot," said Madame Foa.
You hear!" exclaimed Monsieur Foa to Monsieur Dauphin and Madame Foa, with an impressed air. "You hear what Miquette says. He has not a concert talent. He has everything that you like, but not a concert talent."
"She would if she could." "I should so like to have seen her again," said Audrey eagerly. She was so relieved at Madame Piriac's not coming that she felt she could afford to be eager. And Monsieur Foa, a little distance off, threw a sign into the duologue, and called: "You permit me? Your dress ... Exquise! Exquise! And these pigs of French persist in saying that the English lack taste!"
A very dark, rather short and negligently dressed man of nearly middle-age who was descending the staircase, raised his hat with grave ceremony: "Pardon, Madame. Foa it is I." Audrey was not prepared for this encounter. She had intended to compose her face and her speech while mounting the staircase. She blushed. "I come from Musa the violinist," she began hesitatingly.
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