”
“I have been more fortunate than I deserved,” Anna answered, “but I only meant
to stay upon the music hall stage until I could get something better. "Is Thames returned
from London?"
"Not yet," replied the other; "but I expect him every minute. She thought of her costume in some detail and with considerable satisfaction,
and particularly of a very jolly property dagger with large glass jewels in the
handle, that reposed in a drawer in her room. The world, she discovered, with these matters barred had no particular place
for her at all, nothing for her to do, except a functionless existence varied by
calls, tennis, selected novels, walks, and dusting in her father’s house. "
The stranger said nothing, but hastily brushed away a tear. Inexplicably there flashed into vision the Chinese wedding procession in the
narrow, twisted streets of the city, that first day: the gorgeous palanquin, the tomtoms, the weird music, the ribald, jeering mob that trailed along behind. The poor boy, wanting his empty coat! The incident, however, caused her to
review the recent events. You
can’t possibly understand!”
He began a confused explanation, a perplexing contradictory apology for his
urgency and wrath. “You see, it comes after all,” she continued, “from certain original convictions
which have become my religion. “It rained the
whole of the time, but we saw all the sights, and the place never seemed dull. Except he
was the only idiot who would stay. "
"O'Higgins is the name. Leaving the library by the same door she had first used to
enter it earlier that day, she crossed the two little antechambers and moved on
through the rooms.
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