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Updated: June 6, 2025
Then he heard her in bed, sobbing quietly. He was angry at himself for his impatience at the sound. He stood beside the bed, and forced a gentleness he did not feel. "Can I get you anything?" he asked. "No, thank you." And he moved toward the lamp. "Don't turn the light on. I look dreadful." "Shall I ring for Madeleine?" "No. Graham is bringing me a sleeping-powder."
He starts up; she has put a sleeping-powder in Hunding's cup, and they are safe; and thus begins the greatest love-duet, next to the Tristan, in the world.
He could see a flush beat into the fresh softness of her flesh, but she lifted her dark lashes promptly to meet him, and came to the sex duel gaily. "I suppose you think I had to take a sleeping-powder to keep me from it?" she flashed back. "Oh, well, a person can dream," he suggested. "How did you know? But you are right. I did dream of you." To the waiter he gave his order before answering her.
A sleeping-powder, administered to the three days' old infant had, for a time, quieted its incessant cries. This sudden mention brought every dark face to bend low over the cradle, which Bessie, the nurse, had brought hither from the house, that she might share the gossip of her companions. Worn out with weeping and watching, Bessie lay prone and sleeping upon the floor at the cradle's side.
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