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He laid a detaining hand upon her arm. "You never learned that speech in one of my shows," he said, "and you're not going to say good night to me. Understand?" He grinned at her with disgusting confidence, and she flung off his touch. They had been speaking in low tones, because of the two vacant-faced boys across the table; now Lorelei turned appealingly to them.
I would give a good deal to know what she's planning to do for me; for if she has decided that my name had better be painted on or off any heart of her acquaintance, I have little doubt it will be. Once out of the sluice, we were immediately in the Zuider Zee, whose yellow waves rocked "Lorelei" as if she were a cradle, causing the barge to wallow heavily in our wake.
"Ah, you are a student as well as an artist, Miss Knight." "I thought you were going to be pleasant, but you're not, are you?" Lorelei was smiling fixedly. "No, quite the opposite. Thank God, I'm a dyspeptic." "Then why did you come here?" "Why did those birds come? Why did you come?" "Oh, we the birds and I are merely decorations something to add to the rich man's gaiety.
He was just dimly aware of some turn in the conversation, when he heard Jim exclaim: "By Jove, Sis, Bob asks you to marry him!" In prize-ring parlance, Jimmy had "feinted" his opponent into a lead, then taken prompt advantage to "counter." Lorelei awoke to her surroundings with a start, sensing the sudden gravity that had fallen upon her three companions. "What ?"
In the moonlight which blanched her streaming robe and her loosened hair that, falling to her knees, wrapped her in a mantle of spun gold, she looked a wraith, a creature woven of the mist of the stream below, a Lörelei sleeping upon her rock.
One evening after Lorelei had gone to the theater Jim appeared at the apartment and found Bob in a mood so restless and irritable that he dared not go out. "I had a hunch you were lonesome," the caller began, "so I came up to whittle and spit at the stove."
Together they set out through the starlight, leaving the chauffeur with instructions to secure help from the nearest garage; and as they followed the dim road Merkle continued to apologize until Lorelei silenced him. Both were beginning to suffer from the reaction of their fright. It was very late; there was little sign of habitation, for the road led through a wooded country.
If Aunt Fay had indeed been on board "Lorelei," re-named "Mascotte"; if the "M.," late "L.," had been Brederode's boat, and he had really been flirting with my aunt through the waterways of Holland, according to Sir Alec's wild impression, I couldn't have been more anxious to save her from his jealous wrath by giving him the slip.
Leaving her mother, as she said, to do the honors of the house, Amelie went to waken the maids and the manservant, leaving on the mind of Sir John that sort of fairy-like impression which the tourist on the Rhine brings with him of the Lorelei on her rock, a lyre in her hand, the liquid gold of her hair floating in the evening breezes.
I'll step aside and give you another chance, if you say so." During this little declaration Lorelei had watched him keenly; she appeared to be seriously weighing his offer. "I was getting pretty tired of things," he added, "and I s'pose I'd have wound up in the D. T. parlors of some highly exclusive institution or behind a bath-room door with a gas-tube in my teeth.
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