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That sounds rather well. 'Yes. Do you like it, my dear? asked Madame Bonanni. 'But I don't know a word of Spanish 'What in the world has that to do with it? It is a good name. You may have your Chartreuse, Logotheti. Margarita da Cordova, the great Spanish soprano! Your health! You were born in the little town of Boveguado in Andalusia.
That's the story in a nutshell, and if any of you like me you'll be nice to him. She leaned back in her corner of the little sofa and looked first at one and then at the other in an inquiring way, but as if she were fairly sure of the answer. 'Every one likes you, said Logotheti quietly, 'and every one will be nice to him. 'Of course, chimed in Margaret.
'I see nothing but cushions, answered the new-comer, showing very white teeth and speaking with a thick accent Margaret had never heard. 'Ah! So much the better! returned Madame Bonanni with sudden calm. 'What do you want? 'You did me the honour to ask me to breakfast, said Logotheti, coming forward a few steps. 'To breakfast! Never! You are dreaming! She paused an instant.
It is not easy to be a romantic character in the eyes of a lady who lives on the stage, and by it, and constantly gives utterance to the most dramatic sentiments at a pitch an octave higher than any one else; but Logotheti had succeeded.
He would as soon have lost his hand as have written an anonymous letter or deliberately inveigled Logotheti into a trap, and while he was so carefully concealing himself he longed in reality for open fight, and felt that he had made himself ridiculous in his own eyes.
It was a suit in equity brought on the ground that Mr. Moon had paid a derisory price for what he got, in other words but is Mr. Moon a personal friend of yours, apart from his business? 'A friend! cried Mrs. Rushmore in horror. 'Goodness gracious, no! 'Very well, continued Logotheti. 'Then we will say that he cheated Miss Donne's maternal grandfather is that the relationship? Yes. Very good.
For in very different ways she was really loved by Lushington and by Logotheti; and since she had been famous she had made the acquaintance of a good many very high and imposing personages, whose names are to be found in the first and second part of the Almanack de Gotha, in the Olympian circle of the reigning or the supernal regions of the Serene Mediatized, far above the common herd of dukes and princes; they had offered her a share in the overflowing abundance of their admirative protection; and then had seemed surprised, if not deeply moved, by the independence she showed in declining their intimacy.
'It is much cleaner, Logotheti answered imperturbably. Margaret uttered an involuntary exclamation of surprise. 'Of course it is! he exclaimed. 'I know who washes my fingers. I don't know who washes the forks, nor who used them last. If one stopped to think about it, one would never use a fork or a spoon that was not one's own or washed by oneself.
She was also uncomfortably aware that Lushington had predicted what had happened, and she was informed that he had not even taken the trouble to come to the first performance of the opera. Logotheti, who knew everything about his old rival, had told her that Lushington was in Paris that week, and was going on to see his mother in Provence.
An active man, in the usual driver's disguise of the modern motorist, jumped down, and at the same instant pushed his goggles up over the visor of his cap and loosened the collar of his wide coat, displaying the face of Constantino Logotheti. 'Oh, it's you, is it? Mr. Van Torp asked the wholly superfluous question in a displeased tone. 'How did you get in?
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