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Leonore's eyes were usually very sad, but occasionally she would look quite merry, and it was so that she appeared that evening when the children were surrounding her on all sides. When each had to tell her so much and tried to be nearest her, she experienced the feeling that she had come to a family to which she really belonged. Each of the children had founded a special relation with Leonore.
So there was the jolliest of hours spent in this way, all of them laughing at Peter's shots, and at Leonore's attempts to show him how. "Every woman ought to play billiards," Peter thought, when it was ended. "It's the most graceful sight I've seen in years." Leonore said, "You get the ideas very nicely, but you hit much too hard. You can't hit a ball too softly.
"I don't think I have time this evening," said Leonore, still perversely, though smiling a look of contentment down into the fire. Peter said nothing for a moment, wishing to give Leonore's conscience a chance to begin to prick. Then be ended the silence by saying: "If I had anything that would give you pleasure, I wouldn't make you ask for it twice." "That's different," said Leonore.
The fresh mountain breeze had exhilarated them so much that the feeling of well-being was laughing from their young faces. Even Leonore's cheeks, that were usually so pale, were faintly tinged with a rosy hue. The mother stepped out of the garden into the road in order to welcome the children. "Oh," she cried out joyfully. "This first walk has been splendid.
She is an artist of the peaks, whose feet may not descend into the plain and follow its ignominious route, And then here: 'He who has seen her as the spotless spouse of the son of Parsifal, standing by the window, has assisted at the mystery of the chaste soul awaiting the coming of her predestined lover, And 'He who has seen her as Elizabeth, ascending the hillside, has felt the nostalgia of the skies awaken in his heart, Then he goes on to say that her special genius and her antecedents led her to 'Fidelio, and designed her as the perfect embodiment of Leonore's soul that pure, beautiful soul made wholly of sacrifice and love, But you never saw her as Leonore so you can form no idea of what she really was,"
Just here it is of value to record an interesting scientific discovery of Leonore's, because women so rarely have made them. It was, that the distance from New York to Newport is very much less than the distance from Newport to New York. Curiously enough, two days later, his journey seemed to Peter the longest railroad ride he had ever taken. "His friend" did not meet him this time.
Sufficeth it to say, after ten minutes of this treatment, during which Peter's face had slowly changed, first to a look of rest, and then to one which denoted eagerness, doubt and anxiety, but not pain, that he finally put out his hands and took Leonore's. "You have come to me," he said, "Has he told you?" "Who? What?" asked Leonore. "You still think I could?" cried Peter. "Then why are you here?"
"Are we rich now?" she asked in a whisper, as though she feared lest even the walls should hear her question. "Yes," he exclaimed joyfully, "yes, we are rich." Drawing his pocketbook from his coat, he opened it and poured out its contents, shaking the various papers with their array of high numbers into Leonore's lap. "Look, my daughter, my beloved child! Look at these wonderful papers.
He threw the casting ballot in favor of the dinner, and so it was agreed upon. Peter was asked to come to Leonore's birthday festival, "If you don't mind such short notice," and he didn't mind, apparently. Then the conversation wandered at will till Peter rose. In doing so, he turned to Leonore, and said: "I looked the question of nationality up to-day, and found I was right.
The moment this matter had been settled, Leonore's manner changed. "So this is the office of the great Peter Stirling?" she said, with the nicest tone of interest in her voice, as it seemed to Peter. "It doesn't look it," said Watts. "By George, with the business people say your firm does, you ought to do better than this.
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