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Updated: May 21, 2025
He listened with the face of a sphinx. Presently she drew back into the shadows of the box. She had thrown herself into a chair, and her face was hidden. "La Belle Nita has made a mistake," Maggie observed. "His Serene Highness evidently had no wish to be disturbed." Karschoff's eyes rested upon the figure in green silk, and they were filled with an unwilling admiration.
"Something tells me, my dear Nigel," Karschoff declared, "that you are bent on frivolity." "If to lunch with a woman is frivolous, I plead guilty," Nigel replied. Karschoff's face was suddenly grave. He seemed on the point of saying something but checked himself and turned away with a little shrug of the shoulders. "Each one to his taste," he murmured.
But enough of my country-people. We came here to be gay. Let us drink another bottle of wine." The joy of living seemed for a moment to reassert itself in Karschoff's face. His momentary fierceness, reminiscent of his Tartar ancestry, had passed, but it had left a shadow behind.
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