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The day Rongier tried the Della Robbia parachute the second time and made his sensational descent." "Well, then it was Wednesday. It was like June. The beggars were having a lovely time.
"If I tell you a lady whom I am anxious particularly anxious to please, will be angry with me if you refuse? She makes it a point that I bring you." "That's a different matter," said Vanno good-naturedly. "I suppose she doesn't make it a point for me to stay through the whole evening?" "You can settle that with her," Rongier reassured him. "I thought you wouldn't fail me.
Schuyler and Carleton both bowed to Vanno, whom they had met several times during the "flying week" at Nice, and Schuyler interrupted his story long enough to say to Mary, "That's Prince Giovanni Della Robbia, who invented the parachute Rongier tested so successfully the other day. Dick met him once in Egypt.
"I haven't danced since I was twenty; and even if I had I don't know White Lady's owner." "That is nothing," said Rongier. "Nobody knows him, but every one is going that is, all the men we know are going; and you will go, to please me." "I'd do a good deal to please you, but not that," Vanno persisted.
She was young and handsome, her moustache as yet but the shadow of a coming event; and the affair was not so tragic to her since she had the attention of Rongier and plenty of other men. But Vanno had seen such faces and figures as those of Sam Holbein and his wife in dusky shops at Constantine. They had been happier and more at home there.
On the strength of this feat the two had become good friends, and Vanno had been up several times in Rongier's Bleriot monoplane. "A favour, mon ami," Rongier began as they met. "I was on the point of calling at your hotel, to ask it of you. Go with me to-night to a dance on board the big yacht White Lady, that you can see down there in the harbour." "Many thanks, but no!" laughed Vanno.
Vanno had heard these stories from Rongier, before he could find presence of mind to cut them short by turning to another subject: and seeing her to-night, dazzling with diamonds, surrounded by men whose admiration she evidently liked, the good thoughts of her which he had eagerly cherished were burnt up in a new flame of suspicion, a rage of jealous anger.
"It's that beautiful Miss Grant I told you about; and she's with the Roman Prince who invented the parachute Rongier used in the Nice 'flying week. They are certainly in love with each other! They couldn't look as they do if they weren't. Perhaps they're engaged. Poor Dick! All his trouble for nothing." "Why poor Dick?" inquired the Reverend George Winter.
And she is clever enough to be Madame la Baronne Rongier, wife to the idol of the French people, if she thinks it worth while! Just for the moment, though, I am on my probation. I dare refuse her nothing she wants, and she wants Prince Giovanni Della Robbia at her mother's dance." "That unworthy person is at her service," Vanno said, bored at the prospect, but willing to please his friend. Mrs.
He resolved to invite the curé to dine with him on Christmas night; and meanwhile, strolling on the Casino terrace in the hope of seeing Mary, he ran across Jean Rongier, the airman, the young French baron who had achieved a sensational success at Nice for the new Della Robbia parachute.
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