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Fiorsen and Count Rosek went into the country this afternoon. I haven't their address at present." She must have turned white, for she could hear the man saying: "Anything I can get you, ma'am?" "When did they start, please?" "One o'clock, ma'am by car. Count Rosek was driving himself. I should say they won't be away long they just had their bags with them."
Hearing the maid's knock, and her murmured: "Count Rosek to see you, sir," he thought: 'What the devil does he want? A larger nature, drifting without control, in contact with a smaller one, who knows his own mind exactly, will instinctively be irritable, though he may fail to grasp what his friend is after. And pushing the cigarette-box toward Rosek, he turned away his head.
Next day, he found himself in Paris with Rosek. "I could not stand," he wrote, "the sight of the streets, of the garden, of our room. When I come back I shall stay with Rosek. Nearer to the day I will come; I must come to you." But Gyp, when she read the letter, said to Winton: "Dad, when it comes, don't send for him. I don't want him here."
Once they had walked a long way homeward in the dawn, Rosek with them, Fiorsen playing on his muted violin, to the scandal of the policemen and the cats. Dim, unreal memories! Grasping Betty's arm more firmly, she rang the bell. When the man servant, whom she remembered well, opened the door, her lips were so dry that they could hardly form the words: "Is Mr. Fiorsen in, Ford?" "No, ma'am; Mr.
She could not get used to his utter oblivion of people's feelings, to the ferocious contempt with which he would look at those who got on his nerves, and make half-audible comments, just as he had commented on her own father when he and Count Rosek passed them, by the Schiller statue.
Rosek stood looking down at her; his stillness, the sweetish gravity of his well-cut lips, his spotless dandyism stirred in Gyp a kind of unwilling admiration. "What is it?" she said. "Bad business, I'm afraid. Something must be done at once. I have been trying to arrange things, but they will not wait. They are even threatening to sell up this house."
Chilly shudders ran down her spine memories of Daphne Wing and Rosek, of that large woman what was her name? of many other faces, of unholy hours spent up there, in a queer state, never quite present, never comfortable in soul; memories of late returnings down these wide stairs out to their cab, of Fiorsen beside her in the darkness, his dim, broad-cheekboned face moody in the corner or pressed close to hers.
And, for something to say, she asked: "Who is the girl you were talking to, Count Rosek? Her face is so lovely." He smiled, exactly the smile she had so disliked at Wiesbaden; following his glance, she saw her husband talking to the girl, whose lips at that moment seemed more than ever to ask for sugar-plums. "A young dancer, Daphne Wing she will make a name. A dove flying!
And Fiorsen was staring straight before him in that moody way she knew so well. All depended on that deadly little man, who had once kissed her throat. A sick feeling seized on Gyp. If her lover knew that within five yards of him were those two men! But she still smiled and talked, and touched his foot. Rosek had seen that she was conscious was getting from it a kind of satisfaction.
Taking a parting look at her baby, Gyp thought bitterly: 'My fate? THIS is my fate, and no getting out of it! On the journey, she and Winton were quite silent but she held his hand tight. While the cook was taking up to Rosek the news of their arrival, Gyp stood looking out at her garden.
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