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"I have found you very easily, Mademoiselle," Preciosa felt a sugary little shudder at this repetition of the word, "I have found you very easily," said Prochnow, casting about for his palette and brushes; "and now I may just as easily lose you." "Oh no," said Elizabeth Gibbons, with great earnestness. "Never fear," said Little O'Grady confidently.
Little O'Grady's mobile face was taxed to the utmost to express all that was within him, but Preciosa saw sympathy and the promise of instant help as clearly as Morrell saw detestation and mocking mischievousness. O'Grady pushed aside a palm-frond and pointed toward Prochnow. "We've come for you, darlin'," he said.
And the Preciosa is the very spit of this here craft built in the same yard, she was, and from the same lines; there ain't a pin to choose atween 'em. Now, if yew was only lucky enough to fall in with her, stranger, I guess she'd be a prize worth havin', eh?" "She would!" I agreed. "And, what's more, my friend, we mean to have her, sooner or later." "Yew don't say!" he jeered.
The verses I gave you were mine, as are these also which I give you now; but I am not a poet for all that God forbid." "Is it such a bad thing to be a poet?" Preciosa asked. "It is not a bad thing," he answered; "but to be a poet and nothing else I do not hold to be very good.
Together they had dawdled and sipped and suggested up one corridor and down another, and in due course they arrived at the studio of Daffingdon Dill, and presently they were as good as enrolled among the habitues of the place. Eudoxia peered about among the tapestries and the sombre old furniture. "Yes, there she is over in the corner with Preciosa McNulty."
Amidst the sound of the tambourine and castanets, in the heat of the dance, a murmur of admiration arose for the beauty and grace of Preciosa; but when they heard her sing for the dance was accompanied with song the fame of the gitana reached its highest point; and by common consent the jewel offered as the prize of the best dancer in that festival was adjudged to her.
The señora Tenienta put her hand in her pocket, but found it empty; she asked for the loan of a quarto from her maids, but none of them had one, neither had the señora her neighbour. Preciosa seeing this, said, "For the matter of crosses all are good, but those made with silver or gold are best.
Whether her words were delivered impromptu, or had been composed some time before, I know not; however that may be, she sang the following lines with infinite grace, as though they were made for the occasion. Preciosa having ended her song, Andrew and Clement rose to meet her.
The page delivered the message, and the old gitana promised to attend. After the performance was ended, and the performers were going elsewhere, a very well-dressed page came up to Preciosa, and giving her a folded paper, said, "Pretty Preciosa, will you sing this romance?
Should she be kinder next time? That would depend on him; yes, if he became a little less professional and a little more personal. Would he become so? She hoped he might. And if he didn't? Then he might be encouraged to. How? Preciosa opened her purse for her fare and postponed an answer.
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