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"Are you just drunk," he said, uncertainly, "or have you completely lost your senses?" "Yes, I'm drunk, but I know what I'm doing. I went out last night, and you warned me. I went out again to-night and Oh yes! I helped marry your friend's son to a show-girl. What are you going to do about it?" "I why, you mustn't talk like that; you're not yourself, Lilas."
"But, Fran," said Abbott helplessly, "I don't understand." "But you're going to, before I'm done with you. I tell you, I'm a show-girl, a lion-tamer, a Jungler. I'm the famous Fran Nonpareil, and my carnival company has showed in most of the towns and cities of the United States.
"What will people think of a superintendent of public schools caring for a show-girl, even if she is Fran Nonpareil. How would it affect your career?" "But you have promised never again to engage in a show, so you are not a show-girl." "What about my mother who lived and died as a lion-tamer? What will you do about my life-history? I'd never speak to a man who could feel ashamed of my mother.
Fran had been a show-girl, a trainer of lions, and Abbott distinctly remembered that she had spoken of a "Samson". Fran had just these movements and this height. He missed Fran's mellow voice, but voices may be disguised; and the hands now raised toward the audience may have been stained dark. Who was that "sick friend" that Fran had possibly mentioned only as an excuse for escaping?
Unmistakably English and apparently of the cultivated type. In fact, the peculiarities of speech that determines the London show-girl or music-hall character were wholly lacking. Her voice, her manner, even under such trying conditions, were characteristic of the English woman of cultivation.
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