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I guess she would be as right as any of us the moment she was on the boards." Nevertheless, although she was not going to confess it, Saidie was troubled and uneasy. There was something in Bella's face she had not seen before, and it frightened her a little. She stood at the wings with a quick-beating heart, but the next moment laughed at her own fears. Bella was singing her very best.
The weight of Saidie, tall and well-developed as she was, seemed as nothing to him. "Zenobie, will you hold the lamp at the doorway, that he may see his way?" Saidie cried out, slipping off a thin gold circlet she wore on her arm, and letting it drop into the other's hands. "Farewell, Zenobie; may you be always as happy as I am now."
"I won't stand it any longer," he answered, with a spurt of resolution which was exhausted in the feeble speech. Miss Saidie put up her hand and straightened his necktie with an affectionate pat. "Only for a little while, dear," she urged; "he's in one of his black humours, and it will blow over, never fear. Things are never so bad but there's hope of a mending some day.
Aunt Saidie and I have both noticed that he would rather spend a hundred dollars though it is like drawing out an eyetooth than keep a pound of fresh butter from the market." "And yet he likes you?" "Oh, he tolerates me, as far as that goes; but I don't believe he likes anything on earth except his money. It's his great passion, just as Molly's love of jewelry is hers.
Hamilton began to tire of her position. She felt she was not making Hamilton half unhappy enough. She had had but one idea, and that was to separate him from Saidie, and in this she had failed. He had not even been turned out of his post.
"Ma" wept copious tears, and reckoned her Bella was a lucky girl to get such an "elegant" husband; and Saidie wished him happiness in a voice like a corn-crake, and declared that her sister was "just the sweetest and best girl out of N'York," which she was; "and born to lead a private life," which she wasn't. Bella herself had very little to say.
"Oh, you can't, you can't," groaned Miss Saidie, nervously mopping out the inside of a cup. "For heaven's sake, don't raise another cloud of dust jest as we're beginning to see clear again." "Now don't tell me I can't when I must," responded Maria, pushing away her plate and rising from the table; "there's no such word as 'can't' when one has to, you know.
The British matron's views of the relative positions of first and subsequent wives differs, however, from Saidie's, and Mrs. Hamilton's face grew purple as she heard Saidie's answer, and some faint comprehension of Saidie's view was borne in upon her. "Where is my husband?" she demanded fiercely. "The Sahib is in the city to-day," returned Saidie calmly.
Saidie slipped off his knee, and fastening the little gilt link at her neck more securely, drew her soft filmy garment more closely to her, and commenced to dance before him in the screened verandah, with the hot moonlight, filtered through the delicate tracery; of innumerable leaves falling on her smooth, warm-tinted body.
A door across the passage at this moment shut, softly, but securely. Behind it, in her low chair by her sewing table sat the young sister whose fate had been so lightly decreed. Was it all just so, as Saidie had said? Had she no longer a right to say no? Only themselves know how easily, how almost inevitably, young judgments and consciences are drawn on in the track beaten down for them by others.
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