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"Nora, you are behaving abonation

"Well, I aood ti Ah the mazes of the waltz, as

some poet who knehat he was about phrased it

It is not an exaggeration to say that there was not a woman in the

ballrooowned and

complexioned, too She overshadowed them not only by sheer beauty, but by

exuberance of spirit And they followed her with hating eyes and whispered

scandalous things behind their fans and wondered what had possessed the

Marchesa to invite the bold thing: so does enius As for the erly as of old

they sought it

By way of parenthesis: Herr Rosenafter thecelebrated in verse

The object of his visit had gone to the ball at Cadenabbia At the hotel

he demanded a motor-boat There was none to be had In a furious state of

ed two oarsmen to row him across the lake

And so it caroeary of the play,

full of bitterness and distaste, hating herself and every one else in the

world, stole out to the quay to commune with the , scorning the steps Instantly she drew her

lace mantle closely about her face It was useless In the man the

hunter's instinct was much too keen

"So I have found you!"