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All this both made noise and caused delay, and it was with a decided sense of relief that we found ourselves once more in the saddle and en route. "We have lost more time than I reckoned on," said Carmen, as we galloped through the pass.
"Ay, Virgin of the Rosary and of the Girdle! Ay, ay! Our Lady of Novaliches!" "Mother!" responded the elder of the daughters. "I told you so!" continued the wife in an accusing tone. "I told you so! Ay, Virgin of Carmen, ay!" "But you didn't tell me anything," Capitan Tinong dared to answer tearfully.
"Back, Senor Don Jose," replied the peasant, in distressed accents. "You don't know what kind of people those are. They are the same men who stole the chalice, the Virgin's crown, and two candlesticks from the church of the Carmen last month; they are the men who robbed the Madrid train two years ago." Don Jose, hearing these alarming antecedents, felt his courage begin to give way.
This talk so absorbed Henderson that after they had reached the city he had walked some blocks towards his lodging before he recalled his promise about the message. On his table he found a note from Carmen bidding him to dinner informally an invitation which he had no difficulty in declining on account of a previous engagement. And then he went to his club, and passed a cheerful evening. Why not?
He surely must be a madman if he wanted to do harm to Hugo Stolphe; for Hugo Stolphe had only "kept" the woman who had left her husband, not because of himself, but because of another man altogether one George Masson. Had not Carmen herself told him that before she and he lived together? What grudge could Carmen's husband have against Hugo Stolphe?
Nor was death enough to atone Carmen would have chosen to see Angela die disfigured, so that Nick should remember her hideous through the years to come. Desiring this eagerly, and all other evils, Mrs. Gaylor was, nevertheless, polite and pleasant to Mrs. May.
'Big leaguers of some kind, thinks Cogan, and asked the fruit-stand keeper who they were, and the fruit-seller said 'Torero. "'Torero? Torero? Ah-h-h' Cogan recalled his 'Spanish Without A Master' 'Ah-h-h, of course, Toreros Toreadors' he remembered the opera 'Carmen' bull-fighters. Cogan got up and followed them.
"What do you mean, Carmen?" asked Margaret, startled. "Why, that is the road Mr. Henderson is in." "Yes, I know, dear. There were too many in it." "Isn't it safe?" said Margaret, turning to Hollowell. "A great deal more solid than it was," he replied. "It is part of a through line. I suppose Miss Eschelle found a better investment." "One nearer home," she admitted, in the most matter-of-fact way.
When she had found out all that he knew or remembered of the new will, and arose to go, Mr. Sage said he would accompany her to the office. And Carmen gratefully accepted his escort, saying that she had wished to ask him to go with her, but that she feared to take up so much of his time. At the office the first will was found, but no other. The lawyer glanced through it, and then handed it to Mrs.
She formed the centre of a wild orgy; glasses rang, coarse songs and oaths were heard from the lips of a crowd of shameless men and women who surrounded Jane, and uttering a loud cry Spero buried his face in his hands. As we have stated, Gontram had given a note to Coucou to deliver to Carmen. When the Jackal reached the palace in the Rue Rivoli he stopped in amazement.
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