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"You're going to be a person or, rather, you're going to show you're a person. But that comes later. You thought of Lola as your part?" "I tried to. But I don't know anything about acting except what I've seen and the talk I've heard." "As I said the other day, that means you've little to learn. Now as to Lola's entrance."
Ludwig faced the chamber of peers, where the demand of the populace was placed before him. "I would rather lose my crown!" he replied. The lords of Bavaria regarded him with grim silence; and in their eyes he read the determination of his people. On the following day a royal decree revoked Lola's rights as a subject of Bavaria, and still another decree ordered her to be expelled.
Affection also might have jealously deterred Jane from giving Lola her father's infrequent letters. But affection cannot excuse what is unworthy; and Lola's thoughts ran vaguely with a distrust which did something to embitter the wholesome tides of life. "I am right to put an end to Miss Combs's unwise benevolence," thought the doctor, as he tied his horse outside the schoolhouse.
Lola could have no interest in deceiving her. She must not answer his letter or be his dupe again. Bluebell's approaching departure to England still further corroborated Lola's story. At that picnic on Long Island, Bertie had evidently acknowledged his engagement to herself, which she now fully believed to be a mercenary one, as, doubtless, he had also assured her rival.
"Couvrez-vous, Monsieur, je vous en prie," said I. He covered his head. "Monsieur," said he, "I beseech you to be seated, and do me the honour of joining me in the coffee and excellent cognac of this establishment." "Willingly," said I, mindful of Lola's tale of the long knife which he carried concealed about his person.
Indeed, now she was here I had a curious desire to keep her. I regarded the failure of my eumoirous little plans with more than satisfaction. I had done my best. I had satisfied myself that he was an outrageous person, thoroughly disqualified from becoming Lola's husband, and there was an end of the matter. I was delighted. I patted Destiny on the back, and drank his health in excellent Pommery.
Her own garments remained things of the baldest utility, but the village seamstress was kept busy feather-stitching and beribboning articles for Lola's wear. In these things Jane developed a most prodigal pride, freely expending upon them the little patrimony which had been put in the Trinidad bank against her old age.
But Lola's beautiful black eyes blazed across at him with a light that none had ever seen before in their inscrutable depths. Then the hour struck, and all Corvan, it seemed to Cleve, strung out toward the Court House. This was to be in open court a spectacle. From somewhere in the adobe outskirts of the town came Ellen's serving women, most of them, whom Cleve had sent in early in the day.
Crowninshield was not really as sanguine as he would have Walter think. There was a pucker of annoyance about the corners of his mouth, and his eyes looked dull and discouraged. Say what he might His Highness knew without being told that deep down in his heart of hearts Lola's master had resigned himself to never seeing her again. For a few seconds the capitalist lingered, musing.
Jane had faltered in the trust which she had assumed, and now, confronted with the embarrassment of facing Lola's father in a plain confession of her delinquency, she hesitated and was miserable and afraid and reluctant. Rather than state her situation she would even keep Lola from school. "It isn't that I care for that!" throbbed Lola.
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