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Nay, were it not better to be tossing on stormy seas, driving on a lee-shore, toiling as a slave under a tropic sun, than here, with a gaping audience waiting to devour me with their eyes and ears? The first thing I did, on reaching the retiring-room, was to give way to a fearful fascination and take another peep at the audience from behind a curtain at the side-entrance.
'They have come, he said; he jumped on the orchestra boards and hastened to greet the Luciani with Durandarte in the retiring-room. His departure raised the whisper that he would wield the baton. An opinion was unuttered. His name for the flute-duet with the Hon.
So thinking, he entered the room with that easy grace which characterised the gay courtiers among whom he flourished, and approached the fair tenant, whom he found seated near a table covered with books and music, and having on her left hand the large half-open casement, dim with stained glass, admitting only a doubtful light into this lordly retiring-room, which, hung with the richest tapestry of the Gobelines, and ornamented with piles if china and splendid mirrors, seemed like a bower built for a prince to receive his bride.
How the dealer in horses removed the rector's difficulties was never accurately known, but boys passing the door of the rector's retiring-room when he was closeted with Mr. McGuffie overheard scraps of the conversation, and Muirtown was able to understand the situation.
The customs were simple: Certain hours for arrival, for lunch, for leaving; women's retiring-room embarrassedly discovered to be on the right behind the big safe; water-cooler in the center of the stenographers' room. But the office prejudices, the taboos, could not be guessed. They offered you every possible chance of "queering yourself."
Now that the time draws near when Heaven has shown me another duty, I have no fear but that every loyal German will bow his head before the lightnings which will play around my sword and share with me the iron will to wield it. Your audience is finished, Baron Von Ragastein. You will take your place with the gentlemen of my suite in the retiring-room.
Petersburg which is saying a great deal! They used to try to make fun of me, but I would console myself by drinking champagne and then lolling in a retiring-room. Nevertheless, I found it deadly work. "C'est un utchitel," Blanche would say of me, "qui a gagne deux cent mille francs, and but for me, would have had not a notion how to spend them. Presently he will have to return to his tutoring.
When I saw that they were pretty mellow and were going over their old recollections, I made a sign to the girls, and they immediately went out as if to go to a retiring-room.
Her eyes have again their dark sparkle. Not a trace remains to tell what her self-imposed penance has cost her. Again she is the proud marchesa, the mistress of the feudal palace and all its glorious memories. Yes; and she casts her eyes round where she stands, back again in the retiring-room. Yes all is yet her own. True, she is impoverished worse, she is laden with debt, harassed by creditors.
When the piece was over, he said "We had to turn my bedroom into a retiring-room. I'm afraid we shall not be alone." "That does not matter; my mother does not approve of young girls sitting out dances." "But your mother isn't here." "I should not think of doing anything I knew she did not wish me to do."
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