Volume II Part 9 (1/2)
”Sir, who is she?”
”Cannot it be iined by thee?”
”Well, sir, I only know of _one_”
”Thou art right A queen is only _one_, just like any other lady
Coin name, and stills the heart like solitude”
”I don't think that does still”
”Ah! thou hast found that too!”
”Sir, you said you wished to go”
He opened the door, the lock of which he had played with as he stood, and I ran out first
The pavilion was crowded ”Oh, dear!” said Seraphael, a little piqued, ”it's exceedingly hot Canst thou contrive to find thy friends in all this fuss? I cannot find _mine_”
”Sir, my brother and sister were to wait for me in the concert-hall; they cannot come here, you know, sir If I knew your friends, I think I could find them, even in this crowd”
”No,” answered the Chevalier, decisively, as he cast his brilliant eyes once round the room, ”I know they are not here I do not _feel_ thearden For one thing, they could not breathe here”
”Let us go to theh the assembly, so that they scarcely turned a head We were soon on the grass,--so fresh after the autureen, we entered the li lonely, and looking down, as he rarely appeared So abstracted, indeed, was he that we ht have walked over him if Seraphael had not forced me by a touch to pause, and waited until he should approach to our hand
”See,” said the Chevalier gleefully, ”how sole, Carlomein, that I should be afraid of hi of! He has quite a countenance for a picture”
But Anastase had reached us before I had ti”
He arrested hirace that charmed from his cool de it in his hand, and raising his serious gaze, he see for the voice of the Chevalier But, towhich they both regarded each other At last Seraphael fairly laughed
”Do you know, I had forgotten what I had to say, in conte you?
It is what I call a htly, and then shut up his lips; but a sort of flush tinged his cheeks, I thought
”Perhaps, Auchester, you can remind the Chevalier Seraphael”
I was so irritated at this observation that I kicked the gravel and dust, but did not trust myself to speak
”Oh!” exclaimed Seraphael, quickly, ”it was to request of you a favor,--a favor I should not dare to ask you unless I had heard what I heard to-day, and seen what I saw”
It ht have been ularly at variance with the words here A suppressed disdain breathed underneath his accent
”Sir,” returned Anastase, with scarcely rant any favor inis so I shall be much indebted if you can explain it to e from Spoda to the Fraulein Cerinthia”