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The affairs of Gloria are hardly likely to be a grave international question for us, and in the meantime it is only showing a courtesy to a man who is at once an Englishman and a stranger. A slightly ironical 'Hear, Hear, came from Soame Rivers, who did not love enthusiasm. Sir Rupert followed suit good-humouredly. 'Where is he stopping? asked Sir Rupert. 'At Paulo's Hotel, papa.
'Now, of course, I never allow revolutionary plotting in this house, Paulo went on to say. 'I may have my sympathies and you may have your sympathies, and so on; but business is business, and we can't have any plans of campaign carried on in Paulo's Hotel. Kings are as good customers to me when they're on a throne as when they're off it better maybe. 'Yes, dear, I know all about that.
'Oh, the curtain is going up, Sir Rupert said, 'and Ericson is rushing away. Hamilton stays, I see. I'll go and see her after this act. 'And I'll go and see her to-morrow, were the words of his daughter. In a moment Ericson came in. The piece was in movement again. Helena kept her eyes fixed on Miss Paulo's box. She was puzzled about Hamilton.
"It is precisely because I was Count Paulo's friend, that I have come!" said Bernis, seriously. "The count loved you, princess, and what I did not know at the time is known to me now. Because he loved and was devoted to you, he hazarded his life, and more than his life, his liberty." "And they have robbed him of that precious liberty," sighed Natalie.
Now had she already forgotten that she had confided in him on Paulo's account; she believed in him on his own account, and Paulo had retreated into the background. Occasionally also the bloody image of poor Carlo presented itself to her mind, and she secretly reproached herself for having mourned him for so short a time, for having so soon forgotten that faithful, self-sacrificing friend.
They then turned her over, and performed the same work on the other. The Saint Raphael being once more loaded, Paulo's ship was next repaired and strengthened with additional knees and ribs and inner planking. The stores of the Saint Miguel being divided between the two ships, the Captain-Major received Coelho on board his own.
Paulo's father was a Spaniard who had gone out to Gloria as a waiter in a café, and who had entered the service of a young Englishman in the Legation, and had followed him to England and married an English wife. Mr. Paulo George Paulo was the son of this international union.
And in any case the morning flowers were a charming gift and a most delightful attention, and a gentleman must offer his thanks for them to the most affected young woman in the world. So he told the waiter that after breakfast he would send his card to Miss Paulo's room, and ask her to allow him to call on her. 'Miss Paulo will see you, of course, the man replied. 'Mr.
Is it then true, Paulo, that people can be so false to each other, and that those who live in the world never dare to speak as they think?" "It is, alas! but too true, Natalie," said Paulo, with a sad smile. "Then never let me become acquainted with such a world," said the young maiden, clinging to Paulo's arm.
Paulo's Hotel stands, as everybody knows, in the pleasantest part of Knightsbridge, facing Kensington Gardens. The sky was brilliantly blue, the trees were deliciously green; Knightsbridge below him lay steeped in a pure gold of sunlight. The animation of the scene cheered him sensibly. May is seldom summery in England, but this might have been a royal day of June.
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