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Updated: May 16, 2025
many opera-glasses were directed toward the spectator to whom the actress appeared to address herself, when suddenly a new object of interest changed the circuit of observation.
A murmur went through the wide court of the assizes, the galleries of which were crammed with spectators. If the accused did not spoil the effect of the brilliant speech by an imprudent word he was saved. The president's answer resounded unheard. And now the eye-glasses and opera-glasses began to click.
But that was all. Telescopes and even opera-glasses were being handed from one to another, but she was too shy to ask for the loan of one, though she longed for it, just for a moment. Certainly it would have been useless. At that very time Maurice, standing on the 'India's' deck, was straining his eyes to catch but one glimpse of her, and all in vain.
She took one hand swiftly from the door, put it behind her ah, she had a pair of opera-glasses at her eyes now! The train went on faster. It was nearly off the bridge. But she was waving her hand. She was calling. She had seen Gaspare. And he? Maurice saw him start forward as if to run to the bridge. But the train was gone. The boy stopped, hesitated, then dashed away across the stones.
On the morrow, about ten o'clock in the evening, we all five again found ourselves at Paul's, four of us with opera-glasses in our pockets. As on the previous evening, the fair songstress sat down at her piano, then proceeded slowly to make her night toilette.
And before his stall had passed and repassed the world royalties, the aristocracy, the army. Hoi polloi had used another entrance by which to climb to the upper galleries. He had been, then, of the elect. Aristocrats who had forgotten their own opera-glasses had requested him to give them of his best, had through long years learned to know him there, and had nodded to him as they swept by.
"Now, while we are waiting," resumed the duke, his agitation somewhat under control, "the proof, the definite proof!" "Her highness stumbled one night," said Hans, "and fell upon the fire. I snatched her back, but not before her left arm was badly burned." The Gipsy nodded. "I saw it, Highness." And that was why Grumbach went to the military ball with opera-glasses! Carmichael was round-eyed.
Men and women looked at each other through their opera-glasses, and, bringing distant outside life close to them, fancied themselves in near communion with it. The intimacy of the opera-glass was warm enough to suit them, so very near at one moment, comfortably distant at the next. It was an intimacy that could have no return, nor demanded it.
"A relation of Lady Jane Granville." "What has she?" "I don't know nothing, I believe." "Nothing, certainly a daughter of the Percy who lost his fortune." All apprehensions ceased on the part of the ladies, and generally all admiration on the part of the gentlemen. Opera-glasses turned another way.
Thereupon the two friends talked philosophically for some minutes about the secret, unknowable troubles, which differences of character or perhaps physical antipathies, which were not perceived at first, give rise to in families, and then Roger de Salnis, who was still looking at Madame de Mascaret through his opera-glasses, said: "It is almost incredible that that woman has had seven children!"
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