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He had no idea that he was not a gentleman but that she was a lady. He did not know that there were such things. Madame Socani told him that this young woman was already married to Mr. Jones, but had left that gentleman because he had no money. He did not believe this; but in any case he would be willing to risk it. The peril would be hers and not his.
She is Madame Socani in the plot, and a genuine American from New York; but she can sing; she has a delicious soprano voice, soft and powerful; but she has also a temper and temperament such as no woman, nor yet no devil, ought to possess. Of Monsieur Socani, or Signor Socani, or Herr Socani, I never yet heard. But such men do not always make themselves troublesome.
As Madame Socani was an American woman, there was no reason why she should not have asked the question in English were it not that as it referred to an affair of love it may be thought that French was the proper language. "Mr. Jones isn't any more, as far as I am concerned," said Rachel, passing on. "Oh, he has gone!" said Madame Socani, following her into the slips.
Madame Tacchi is about to take the place which Miss O'Mahony has vacated at 'The Embankment. Ah, my lord, you behaved very shabbily to us there." "If Madame Tacchi," said the lord, "can sing at all like Miss O'Mahony, we shall have her away very soon. Is Madame Tacchi in sight, so that I can see her?" Then Mr. Moss indicated the table at which the lady sat, and with the lady was Madame Socani.
When Madame Socani was assured that Rachel had taken the money, she and her father between them, she declared, with great apparent satisfaction, that Rachel must be given up as lost. "As to that wicked old man, her father " "He's not so very old," said Moss. "She's no chicken, and he's old enough to be her father. That is, if he is her father.
But now he heard that a real marriage was intended, and he was very angry. Not even Madame Socani was more capable of spite than Mr. Moss, though he was better able to hide his rage. Even now, when Christmas-time had come, he would hardly believe the truth, and when the marriage was not instantly carried out, new hopes came to him that Lord Castlewell would not at last make himself such a fool.
"She has got her father with her." "Her father! What is the good of fathers? He'll take some of the money, that's all. I'll tell you what it is, Moss, if you don't drop her you and I will be two." "With all my heart, Madame Socani," said Moss. "I have not the slightest intention of dropping her. And as for you and me, we can get on very well apart."
She had heard the same sort of things said as to other ladies at the theatre, and took them all as a matter of course. Had she been asked, she would have attributed them all to Madame Socani; because Madame Socani was the one person whom, next to Mr. Moss, she hated the most. The rumour in this case simply stated that she had already been married to Mr. Jones, and had separated from her husband.
It must be acknowledged on the part of Rachel that she was prepared to make her accusation against Mr. Moss on perhaps insufficient grounds. She had heard among the people at the theatre, who did not pretend to know much of Mr. Moss and his antecedents, that there was a belief that Madame Socani was his wife.
"When I take her you'll be glad enough to join us; that is, if we will have you." Then Madame Socani ground her teeth together, and turned up her nose with redoubled scorn. But it was soon borne in upon Mr. Moss that the marriage was to be a marriage, and he was in truth very angry. He had been able to endure M. Le Gros' success in carrying away Miss O'Mahony from "The Embankment."
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