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It had been arranged with Lanari that she should make one appearance at a small provincial theatre so soon as she could master any easy part, and Kostalergi, having some acquaintance with the manager at Orvieto, hastened off there to obtain his permission for her appearance.
The life of that quaint old country-house was something very strange and odd to Nina Kostalergi.
'More than that, I said, "If the Cabinet here persist in sending Kostalergi " 'Whom did you say? What name was it you said? 'Kostalergi the Prince. As much a prince as you are. First of all, they have no better; and secondly, this is the most consummate adventurer in the East. 'I should like to know him. Is he here at Athens? 'Of course he is.
'It is of you I want to speak. And he drew his chair closer to her, and tried to take her hand, but she withdrew it quickly, and moved slightly away. 'If you knew the delight it is to me to see you again, Nina well, Mademoiselle Kostalergi. Must it be Mademoiselle? 'I don't remember it was ever "Nina," said she coldly. 'Perhaps only in my thoughts. To my heart, I can swear, you were Nina.
'Strange enough, said Atlee thoughtfully, 'you have just as it were by mere hazard struck the one chord in the English nature that will always respond to the appeal of a home affection. Were I to say, "Do you know why Kostalergi makes so hard a bargain? It is to endow a daughter.
Very scattered and desultory thoughts were they, at one time over the Alps and with 'long-agoes': nights at Rome clashing with mornings on the Campagna; vast salons crowded with people of many nations, all more or less busy with that great traffic which, whether it take the form of religion, or politics, or social intrigue, hate, love, or rivalry, makes up what we call 'the world'; or there were sunsets dying away rapidly as they will do over that great plain outside the city, whereon solitude and silence are as much masters as on a vast prairie of the West; and he thought of times when he rode back at nightfall beside Nina Kostalergi, when little flashes would cross them of that romance that very worldly folk now and then taste of, and delight in, with a zest all the greater that the sensation is so new and strange to them.
'Not the daughter of that precious Count Kostalergi you have told me such stories of? 'The same, but most unlike him in every way. She is here, apparently with an uncle, who is now from home, and she and her cousin invite us to luncheon to-day. 'What a lark! said the other dryly. 'We'll go, of course? 'In weather like this? 'Why not? Shall we be better off staying here?
'I have a stronger reason to fight for liberal terms, thought he, 'than the Prince Kostalergi imagines; and, fortunately, that fine parental trait, that noble desire to make a provision for his child, stands out so clearly in my brief, I should be a sorry advocate if I could not employ it.
'Kostalergi; they call themselves princes. 'With all my heart. I was only going to say, as you've got a sort of knack of entanglement is there, or has there been, anything of that sort here? 'Flirtation a little of what is called "spooning" but no more. But why do you ask? 'First of all, you are an engaged man. 'All true, and I mean to keep my engagement.
She referred him to her brother before she could consent; and though, when Kostalergi inquired amongst her English friends, none had ever heard of a Lord Kilgobbin, the fact of his being Irish explained their ignorance, not to say that Kearney's reply, being a positive refusal of consent, so fully satisfied the Greek that it was 'a good thing, he pressed his suit with a most passionate ardour: threatened to kill himself if she persisted in rejecting him, and so worked upon her heart by his devotion, or on her pride by the thought of his position, that she yielded, and within three weeks from the day they first met, she became the Princess of Delos.
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