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Her seat was at his side, and her old sense of triumph returned as she perceived the importance his notice conferred, not only in the eyes of her own party but of the other diners. Moffatt was evidently a notable figure in all the worlds represented about the crowded tables, and Undine saw that many people who seemed personally unacquainted with him were recognizing and pointing him out.
If this be true, the beautiful little monster that is bothering me so suggests a knotty problem to wiser heads than mine." Somewhat later his musings led him to indulge in a broad laugh. "Possibly," he said aloud, "she is a modern and fashionable Undine, and has never yet received a woman's soul.
"I know it's been a trial to you, dearest; but this is the last time I shall have to pull the poor boy out." In spite of herself she laughed incredulously: Hubert's "last times" were a household word. But when tea had been brought, and they were alone over the fire, Raymond unfolded the amazing sequel. "An American? He's marrying an American?" Undine wavered between wrath and satisfaction.
"It must be glorious to trace its course down to Vienna!" Bertalda exclaimed, with warmth; but immediately resuming the humble and modest demeanour she had recently shown, she paused and blushed in silence. This much moved Undine; and with the liveliest wish to gratify her friend, she said, "What hinders our taking this little voyage?"
Scarcely had I uttered my prayer when it was granted, and I consummated my first union with Semiramis, gazing on the charms of Marcoline, which I had never seen to such advantage before. Semiramis had been handsome, but she was then what I am now, and without the Undine the operation would have failed.
All that evening Captain John paced the piazza, and warned away the eager callers, who flocked down to ask about the heroine of the hour; for she was more interesting than Undine, the Lily Maid, or any of the pretty creatures attitudinizing behind the red curtains in the hot hotel parlor.
Huldbrand saw that Bertalda seemed to shrink away from his beautiful wife. And when at length he asked her the reason that she no longer loved Undine so well as she had been used to do, she told him that she now knew from whence his wife had come. 'And for the spirit world, said Bertalda, 'I do not care, for I know it not. It and those who have dwelt there fill me with fear and dread.
"I was born in Hawaii, and I have lived there most of my life." "Oh," said Sahwah, "I thought only Hawaiians lived in Hawaii I didn't know anyone else was ever born there." "Lots of white people are born there," replied Undine, politely checking the smile that wreathed her lips at Sahwah's ingenuous remark.
Through the tumult of the waters a sweet voice floated to Bertalda and the knight. Then, as the moon broke through the clouds, they saw Undine on a hill looking down into the valley. She rebuked the waters, she even threatened the vast wave that towered above Bertalda and the knight, until muttering gloomily it vanished from their sight.
The thought's too glorious!" Undine lingered in his arms, not with any intent of tenderness, but as if too deeply lost in a new train of thought to be conscious of his hold. "I suppose most of the things COULD be got ready sooner if I said they MUST," she brooded, with a fixed gaze that travelled past him. "And the rest why shouldn't the rest be sent over to Europe after us?
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