The Lion's Share

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Excerpt: ...an hotel in Frinton for him.” And while Musa was shyly in his imperfect English greeting Mr. and Mrs. Spatt, she whispered to Audrey: “You don’t know. You’d never guess. A big concert agent in Paris has taken him up at... Viac o knihe

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Excerpt: ...an hotel in Frinton for him.” And while Musa was shyly in his imperfect English greeting Mr. and Mrs. Spatt, she whispered to Audrey: “You don’t know. You’d never guess. A big concert agent in Paris has taken him up at last. He’s going to play at a lot of concerts, and they actually paid him two thousand five hundred francs in advance. Isn’t it a perfect dream?” Audrey, who had seen Musa’s trustful glance at Nick as he descended from the cab, was suddenly aware of a fierce pang of hate for the benignant Nick, and a wave of fury against Musa. The thing was very disconcerting. After self-conscious greetings, Musa almost dragged Audrey away from the others. “It’s you I came to London to see,” he muttered in an unusual voice. CHAPTER XXV THE MUTE It was upon this evening that Audrey began alarmingly to develop the quality of being incomprehensible-even to herself. Like most young women and men, she had been convinced from an early age that she was mysteriously unlike all other created beings, and-again like most young men and women-she could find, in the secrecy of her own heart, plenty of proof of a unique strangeness. But now her unreason became formidable. There she sat with her striking forehead and her quite unimportant nose, in the large austere drawing-room of the Spatts, which was so pervaded by artistic chintz that the slightest movement in it produced a crackle-and wondered why she was so much queerer than other girls could possibly be. Neither the crackling of chintz nor the aspect of the faces in the drawing-room was conducive to clear psychological analysis. Mr. Ziegler, with a glass of Pilsener by his side on a small table and a cigar in his richly jewelled hand, reposed with crossed legs in an easy chair. He had utterly recovered from the momentary irritation caused by Audrey’s attack on Strauss, and his perfect beaming satisfaction with...

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