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By way of terminating the operation, she stuck every finger of each hand into her mouth as far as it would go, licked all ten thoroughly, and then looked at them critically before drying them on her napkin. By this time Margaret was past being surprised at anything. 'Logotheti says that in the East they all eat with their fingers, the singer observed.
Women are more alike than men are; some of the nature of the worst of them is latent in the very best, and in the very worst there are little treasures of gentleness and faith that can ransom the poor soul at last. 'I am in earnest, indeed I am, Logotheti repeated, looking at Margaret still. 'Yes, she answered, 'I am sure you are.
She was sleeping as peacefully as a cat after a meal, half curled up in the big chair, her head turned to one side and her cheek buried in a cushion of Rhodes tapestry. Margaret stood and looked at her with curiosity and some amusement. 'She's not generally a very sleepy person, said the young girl. 'The emotions of your first rehearsal have tired her out, said Logotheti.
While Logotheti watched him, three small drops of perspiration appeared high up on his forehead, just where the parting of his thin light hair began; for he felt that he must make up his mind what to say, and several seconds had already elapsed since the question. 'As a matter of fact, he said at last, with an evident effort, 'I did catch sight of Miss Bamberger later.
'I have one, said Logotheti, 'and that's enough. Margaret had received many compliments of a more or less complicated nature, but she did not remember that any one had yet compared her to two Venuses, the Psyche and the Samothrace Nikê in a single breath. 'That's nonsense! she exclaimed, blushing a little, and not at all indignant. 'No, Logotheti answered, imperturbably.
When Logotheti reached the door of the drawing-room, Margaret was finishing Rosina's Cavatina from the Barbiere di Siviglia in a perfect storm of fireworks, having transposed the whole piece two notes higher to suit her own voice, for it was originally written for a mezzo-soprano. Lady Maud and Van Torp had gone out upon the terrace unnoticed a moment before Margaret had begun to sing.
In the same way Logotheti did not care to possess the fastest motor car in Europe, provided that he could be comfortable in one which was a great deal faster than the majority. Moreover, though he was by no means timid, he never went in search of danger merely for the sake of its pleasant excitement.
The change in Logotheti during the next three weeks was profound; and it was humiliating because it deprived him all at once of a sort of power over himself which had grown up with his love for Margaret and depended on that for its nourishment and life; a power which had perhaps not been an original force at all, but only a chivalrous willingness to do her will instead of his own.
He had been drinking hard for years, so that it was a very bad case; and besides, he seemed to have something on his mind, which made it worse. Logotheti came to see him now, and took a vast deal of trouble to be agreeable.
'I will explain it to him, if you will kindly ask him to come here a moment. Logotheti smiled pleasantly. 'Quite so, he said. 'You are, no doubt, reporters, and wish to interview him. As a personal friend of his, and between you and me, I don't think he'll see you. You had better write and ask for an appointment. Don't you think so, Griggs?
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