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Updated: May 21, 2025
I could see the loungers and the drivers talking and pointing as usual. The gilded loungers in Verrey's café got up and watched us through the windows as we passed. This was fame. For nearly twenty years I had been intimate with fame, and with the envy of women and the foolish homage of men. We saw dozens of omnibuses bearing the legend 'Qita. Then we met one which said: 'Empire Theatre.
The renowned Sisters Qita Paquita and Mariquita Qita and the renowned mules of the Sisters Qita! Two hundred pounds a week at the Aquarium! Twenty-five thousand francs for one month at the Casino de Paris! Twelve thousand five hundred dollars for a tour of fifty performances in the States! Fifteen hundred pesos a night and a special train de luxe in Argentina and Brazil!
Capey in, I said, and a natty young man entered, half nervousness, half audacity. 'How did you know I come from the Five Towns? I questioned him. 'I am on the Evening Mail, he said, 'where they know everything, madam. I was annoyed. 'Then they know, on the Evening Mail that Paquita Qita has never been interviewed, and never will be, I said.
Not because I was ashamed of the sin, but because the revenge would have been so pitiful and weak. If Valdès the matchless was capable of passing me over and kneeling to the pretty thing I stood ready. The world was to lose that fineness, that distinction, that originality, that disturbing subtlety, which constituted Paquita Qita. I plunged. ... I was on the other platform.
'Besides, he went on, 'I come from the Five Towns myself. 'Bursley? I asked mechanically. 'Bursley, he ejaculated; then added, 'you haven't been near old Bosley since It was true. 'No, I said hastily. 'It is many years since I have been in England, even. Do they know down there who Qita is? 'Not they! he replied. I grew reflective. Stars such as I have no place of origin.
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