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He leaned back and laughed, and then said, angrily: "I his neck!"

"Thank Heaven we have arrived!" I exclaih of relief

Really,and tiresome, and if I shall always have to put up with these scenes through having red hair, I almost wish it were mouse-colored, like Cicely Parker's Mrs Carruthers often said, "You need not suppose, Evangeline, that you are going to have a quiet life with your coloring; the only thing one can hope for is that you will screw on your head"

Lady Ver and Lord Robert were already in the hall waiting for us, but the second I saw the to Lord Robert His face, so gay and debonnaire all through dinner, now looked set and stern, and he took not the slightest notice of e on the pit tier

Lady Ver appeared triu blacks in the ht spots of pink in her cheeks--she looked lovely; and I can't think why, but I suddenly felt I hated her It was horrid of me, for she was so kind, and settled me in the corner behind the curtain where I could see and not be seen, rather far back, while she and Lord Robert were quite in the front It was "Carmen"--the opera I had never seen it before

Music has such an effect--every note seeood, or exalted, or--or--oh, so that I don't knohat it is--a kind of electric current down my back, and as if--as if I would like to love some one and have them to kiss me Oh, it sounds perfectly dreadful what I have written, but I can't help it--that is what some music does to me, and I said always I should tell the truth here

Fro--Oh, how I understand her--Carmen!--fruit défendu attracted her so--the beautiful, wicked, fascinating snake I also wanted to dance, and to move like that, and I unconsciously quivered perhaps I was cold as ice, and fearfully excited The back of Lord Robert's beautifully set head iroolance hislook so well bred as he does