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Zuleika settled herself down comfortably in the Professor's easy chair and fell into a sound sleep from which there was no awaking; while Roxana met fate on the tiger-skin she loved, coiled up in a circle, and passed from this life of dreams, without knowing it, into one where dreaming is not.
Zuleika, turning from parental affection, spoke of love in the abstract as a thing not unworthy of study, and in discreet twilights after dinner demanded confidences. Georgie would have been delighted to supply them, but he had none, and did not know it was his duty to manufacture them. Mrs. Zuleika expressed surprise and unbelief, and asked those questions which deep asks of deep.
Zuleika flung her arms about her father's neck and kissed him fervently. "I know not," she said, effusively, "what memories, what associations, this room recalls, but it has made you think of my mother and I bless it!" When they both had grown calmer, Monte-Cristo said to his daughter: "There is yet another apartment for us to see. Let us go to it."
Afraid, that's what he was I see it all now afraid of the water. I wish you'd found him as I did skulking behind the curtain. Oh, you're welcome to him." "Don't listen," Noaks cried down. "Don't listen to that person. I admit I have trifled with her affections. This is her revenge these wicked untruths these these " Zuleika silenced him with a gesture.
Zuleika stood in the midst of all this decayed grandeur, lost in wonder, utterly bewildered by what she beheld. She spoke not a single syllable, for words were inadequate to express her deep amazement. Monte-Cristo threw himself upon the divan from which a cloud of stifling dust arose. Taking one of the chibouques in which a supply of Turkish tobacco yet remained, he lighted it and began to smoke.
They were sitting comfortably before the replenished fire; the wind was still moaning in the chimney, when, suddenly, in a lull of the storm the sound of sleigh-bells seemed to fill the room. It was followed by a voice from without, and, with a hysterical cry, Zuleika started to her feet. The same breathless smile with which she had greeted her brother an hour ago was upon her lips as she gasped:
Surely she loved no one else she never could love any one but Giovanni Massetti, for did he not possess her whole heart, all the wealth of her ardent youthful affection? She kissed the envelope, then opened it, took out the letter, which was written in pencil, and read: DEAREST ZULEIKA: I can keep from you no longer. I must see you once more and again call you my own.
Different from Zuleika, he cared for his wardrobe and his toilet-table not as a means to making others admire him the more, but merely as a means through which he could intensify, a ritual in which to express and realise, his own idolatry. At Eton he had been called "Peacock," and this nick-name had followed him up to Oxford. It was not wholly apposite, however.
The apparition paused, sighed deeply, and then resumed in a tone of still greater menace: "Count of Monte-Cristo, look well to your beloved wife, Haydée, look well to your heroic son, Espérance, look well to your darling daughter, Zuleika, for this night they are in frightful danger!
A minute or so later the Secretary approached the Grand Stand and announced in stentorian tones: "First Prize General Murger's Darling, Number 99". While behind him upon Zuleika, chosen of the Judges, sat and smiled Mr. John Robin Ross-Ellison, who lifted his voice and said: "Thanks No! This horse is mine and is named Zuleika."
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