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He had it this time, however. And then, as I say, he turned up the gas; and then " "And then the shower began?" suggested Virgilia, putting her delicate eyebrows through their paces. "The downpour. I never knew anybody to talk faster, or give out more ideas, or wave his hands harder, like this." Preciosa cast her muff away completely and abandoned her plump little fingers to unbridled pantomime.
Finally, having done all that was needful for the youth, they left him alone on a bed of dry hay, not caring to question him then as to his road, or any other matter. As soon as all the others were gone, Preciosa called Andrew aside, and said to him, "Do you remember, Andrew, a paper I let fall in your house, when I was dancing with my companions, and which caused you, I think, some uneasiness?"
"Oh, little Preciosa, I am glad to have even a little of your heart: the half of your love has come to be more to me than the love of all the world besides." Do you think it was not agony for her to hear such words as these and make no response to them, fearing lest with assurance should come satiety? And yet the knowledge of his growing love was very sweet to her, and worth the agony.
Preciosa stood before the mirror, but alarmed at my wild and eager movements, unable to distinguish what I had in my hands, and seeing me raise them suddenly to my face, she shrieked with terror, and fell fainting upon the floor, at the very moment that I placed the glasses before my eyes, and beheld myself, reflected in the mirror, before which she had been standing.
"Preciosa" was brought out before "Der Freischütz," which was just as it should be, as the public needed to be educated up to the "Freischütz" music. "Preciosa" was founded on a Spanish story, "The Gypsy of Madrid," and Weber has written for it some of his most charming melodies, full of Spanish color, life and vivacity. Nowadays the opera is neglected, but we often hear the overture.
"Can I fail with such encouragement?" asked Prochnow, in an intonation unwontedly tender, as he tried to look under those long curling lashes. Preciosa flushed a thing those great, over-admired marble women would have tried in vain to do. Yes, she was no closer to him than she was necessary to him.
Let us begone, grandmother; for here we are held in little esteem, though in truth we are neither thieves nor beggars." "Do not be angry, Preciosa," said Andrew's father. "Of you at least I imagine no one can presume anything ill, for your good looks are warrant for your good conduct. Do me the favour to dance a little with your companions.
He was as quick and clever as any of them, she declared, and was entitled to take his share. Prochnow tossed his head. "I don't know that I care for a 'share," he said. "Do you want to do it all?" asked Preciosa, awe-struck. "All or none," replied Prochnow loftily. "I am not one to co-operate. I could do the whole as easily as a part."
Within a day or two Preciosa began to notice the railway trains. Whenever she was detained at a "grade crossing" she caught herself looking at the locomotive to find a lady in a blue himation. Then the telegraph poles began to trouble her; she got into the habit of glancing aloft for nests of Cupids, and once or twice she thought she saw them. Then her father's letter-heads began to affect her.
I have here a hundred crowns in gold to present to you, as earnest of what I mean to give you hereafter; for a man will be no niggard of his wealth who has given away his very soul." Whilst the cavalier was speaking, Preciosa watched him attentively, and doubtless she saw nothing to dislike either in his language or his person.
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