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He had promised to make a songstress of the one, to send her to Paris; had roused in her wild, ambitious hopes of fame and fortune dreams that, in any case, could be little like the real thing: fanciful visions of conquest and golden living, where never the breath of her hawthorn and wild violets entered; only sickly perfumes, as from an odalisque's fan, amid the enervating splendour of voluptuous boudoirs for she had read of these things.
Mercy!" the wretched man cried, trembling all over, and raising his hands to her in supplication. The Odalisque's only reply was a laugh, in which rang all the cruelty of an insulted woman's deceived heart.
He had promised to make a songstress of the one, to send her to Paris; had roused in her wild, ambitious hopes of fame and fortune dreams that, in any case, could be little like the real thing: fanciful visions of conquest and golden living, where never the breath of her hawthorn and wild violets entered; only sickly perfumes, as from an odalisque's fan, amid the enervating splendour of voluptuous boudoirs for she had read of these things.
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