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Updated: May 15, 2025
My friends old and new I saw inextricably caught in a tangle of cross-purposes, miserably and hopelessly involved in a situation for which I could predict no possible relief. But the towering edifice his hopes had erected was now tumbled about his ears: he had failed to elude the Mursiana. There could be no doubt of her absolute control of the situation.
The woman fell in a heap at the foot of the steps, uttered a cracked simulation of the cry of a broken heart. "Name of a name of God!" she wailed. "After all these years! And my husband strikes me!" Then it was that what had been in my mind as a monstrous suspicion became a certainty. For I recognised the woman; she was Mariana la bella Mariana la Mursiana.
"No," she answered, "this is better." She stepped out upon the gallery; I followed, and she closed the door. Upon the veranda of my pavilion were my visitors from Quesnay, staring up at us apprehensively; Madame Brossard and Keredec still held the foot of the steps, but la Mursiana had abandoned the siege, and, accompanied by Mr.
It was the discordant voice of Mariana la Mursiana, crackling in strident protest. My door was still open; I turned to look and saw her, hot-faced, tousle-haired, insufficiently wrapped, striving to ascend the gallery steps, but valiantly opposed by Madame Brossard, who stood in the way. "But NO, madame," insisted Madame Brossard, excited but darkly determined. "You cannot ascend.
But I felt no great pity for the victim. "Who is it?" I asked, staring at the man in the automobile and not turning toward Ward. "That is Mariana 'la bella Mariana la Mursiana," George answered; " one of those women who come to Paris from the tropics to form themselves on the legend of the one great famous and infamous Spanish dancer who died a long while ago. Mariana did very well for a time.
He'll probably have to stand trial, and of course he's technically guilty, but I don't believe he'd be convicted though I must say it would have been a most devilish good thing for him if he could have been got out of France before la Mursiana heard the truth.
When he came here he did not know of her existence except in the vaguest way. But to go back to that, I'd better tell you first that the woman we saw with him, one day on the boulevard, and who was in the accident with him " "La Mursiana, the dancer; I know." "She had got him to go through a marriage with her " "WHAT?" Ward's eyes flashed as he shouted the word.
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