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Updated: June 29, 2025
Most of all he noticed Vanna, whom he knew well enough, because when she knelt upright she was taller and more wayward than the rest, and because the wind made so plain the pretty figure she had. She was very industrious, but no less full of talk: there seemed so much to say!
Since I had joined Vanna I had begun with her help to study a little Hindustani, and with an aptitude for language could understand here and there. I caught a word or two as she spoke with him that startled me, when the high-bred ascetic face turned serenely upon her, and he addressed her as "My sister," adding a sentence beyond my learning, but which she willingly translated later.
The quiet of her voice was soft as the little lap of water against the bows of the boat, and Kahdra, the Orange Imp, was singing a little wordless song to himself as he washed the plates beside us. It was a simple meal, and Vanna, abstemious as a hermit never ate anything but rice and fruit, but I could remember no meal in all my days of luxury where I had eaten with such zest.
"It was a corner-piece, I'm afraid," said Vanna, with great calmness; "but the natural juices will thaw it." "No, no, no! It is not that, woman," her friend went on feverishly "it is not that! Look at his face, look at his face!" Vanna looked. "Well," she asked, "what of his face?" The bambino, to express his agony, was grinning from ear to ear.
The old man sat at home whenever he could, in his shiny armchair, his cup of black wine by his side, and watched Vanna with the baby by the hour together, poring over every downward turn of her pretty head, every pass of her fingers, every little eager striving of the sucking child.
I ignored Matty with a face like a stone wall. "Good afternoon!" I bowed to Vanna ... who ignored me ... perhaps not seeing me. The fearful, hurt look in the negro girl's eyes made me so ashamed of myself that I wanted to run away and hide forever somewhere.
Some exceptional actors and singers accomplish this feat occasionally. Mary Garden has scarcely ever failed to do so. The moment Mélisande is disclosed to our view, for example, she seems to be surrounded by an aura entirely distinct from the aura which surrounds Monna Vanna, Jean, Thais, Salome, or Sapho.
Her faults of voice and technique are patent to a child, though he might not name them. One who has become a man can ponder the greatness of her singing. I do not mean exclusively in Debussy, though we all know that as a singer of Debussy ... she has scarce a rival. Take her mezza voce and her phrasing in the second act of Monna Vanna, take them and bow down before them.
He approached me one day while we were out on the football field, practicing formations. I was on the scrub team whose duty it was to help knock the big team into shape. "Johnnie, you know Vanna, don't you?... Vanna Andrews, the art student." "Slightly," I concealed, thanking God I hadn't blushed straightway at the mention of her name ... " met her when I posed for Professor Grant's classes."
I was to go in for the first time that very night ... to clinch my lagging resolution, the story was printed in the local papers.... Jack Travers was at his facetious best. Considering myself heroic, and thinking with inner joy how Vanna Andrews would be there, I spent the day in committing to memory the salient points on the nature and habits of lions, from the Encyclopedia Britannica....
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