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"Oh, Mrs. Neugass, if I may! I've only my valise and suitcase." A complete shrugging of Mrs. Neugass took place, her voice, brow, and manner lifting. "Valise and suitcase. Is that a baggage?" "I'm sending West for my trunks later, Mrs. Neugass." "You'm Goyem, not?" "Beg pardon?" "You're Gentiles, ain't it? Well, with Goyem such things ain't so important.
"Come!" she cried, sitting up rather alarmedly in bed, and holding the blanket over her chest. She was lovely and disheveled with sleep, her whiteness whiter because of the most delicately darkened oyster shells beneath her eyes. It was Mrs. Neugass. She was pleasantly shapeless again in cotton stuff, her bosom bulging down and over the jerked-in apron strings.
Sundays she was invariably importuned to dine with the family, and of occasional evenings, Alma Neugass, angular and full of the knobs of protruding neckbones, elbows, and shoulder blades, and with little sacs under her eyes as if she had wept down into them that life could be so tasteless, would knock at her door, and for an hour or two, and sometimes up to midnight, sit on the edge of Lilly's bed, the drone of their conversation surviving repeated rappings from the parental bedroom, adjoining.
I talked to him over the telephone. His voice is hairy." "I've never seen you look so nice, Miss Neugass." "If I stop to think, I'll scream." "Then you mustn't stop, dear." "You should see my father; he can't sit still. I never realized how little and old he's getting until I put his black suit on him. He's so full of pride he Oh, what a mockery for him to dare to come here home with her."
Nothing on earth, Miss Neugass, can be so hideous as that! I I imagine it's flying in the face of the first law of nature nothing so hideous as giving of self to in in payment " Tears were racking the worn form of Miss Neugass, Lilly wrapping her in arms that soothed. "You musn't," she said; "you've your big job ahead of you." Through the left wall came a sharp trilogy of raps. "All right, ma.
Miss Neugass swung her face with its considerable dip of nose toward Lilly. "You don't think this place will hold Millie any more? You don't think, for instance, the great Du Gass could receive the reporters here!" "But, after all, it's her home." A levelness of expression came down over the face of Miss Neugass, as if a shade had been lowered across it, her voice, too, leveled of any inflection.
Millie used to write that around the opera house in Vienna, when Auchinloss started rubbing his hands together after an audition, everybody used to have the smelling salts ready." "Miss Neugass you've heard me practice. Tell me the truth! Do you think my ambition is bigger than my voice? Tell me as you would your sister."
Her talent needed hardly to be developed. It opened naturally, like a rose. Nine voices out of ten have to be drilled for like precious ore. Just you study on. I'll have Auchinloss hear you when he comes over." "You're sure, Miss Neugass, they're coming?" "That's what the papers keep saying. She's to sing three operas in January, with Auchinloss conducting.
Doan' tell it to my husband that the reduction came from me, but if three dollars is all you can pay, since it's for some one who will use the piano and liven up things a little, it's worth the difference to me in pleasure." "Oh, Mrs. Neugass, if you knew what a place like this would mean to me now! If only you " "All righd, then, for a few cents we doan' dicker.
"If you will excuse me now, please, I won't, intrude any longer." "Good night, dear; it was just lovely. Good night," joined in everybody, too kindly. Walking out of that room, Lilly was conscious suddenly of passing through a prolonged stare, especially from Mrs. Neugass, who leaned forward slightly in her chair a stare that prompted her somehow to quicken her departure almost to a run.
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