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I {The Dawn}
VII {More Confidences} {than One}
"Considering what?"
"If I say what, you'll go wrong again.
"You'll go wrong, you mean, Eddy. Don't be
ungenerous.
"Ungenerous! I like that!"
"Then 1 don't like that, and so I tell you
plainly,Rosa pouts.
Under the trees
He rises unsteadily from the bed, lays the
pipe upon the hearthstone, draws back the
ragged curtain, and looks with
repugnance at his three companions. He
notices that the woman has opium-smoked
herself into a strange likeness of the
Chinaman. His form of cheek, eye, and
temple, and his colour, are repeated in her.
Said Chinaman convulsively wrestles with
one of his many Gods or Devils, perhaps,
and snarls horribly. The Lascar laughs and
dribbles at the mouth. The hostess is still.
In the court
III{The Nuns' house}
"Well!" says Edwin, after a lengthy silence.
"According to custom. We can't get on, Rosa.
Rosa tosses her head, and says she don't want
to get on.
"That's a pretty sentiment, Rosa, considering.
-Mr. Jasper was seated at the piano as
they came into his drawing-room, and
was accompanying Miss Rosebud
while she
sang. It was a consequence of his
playing the accompaniment without
notes, and of her being a heedless
little creature, very apt
to go wrong, that he followed her lips
most attentively, with his eyes as well
as hands; carefully and softly hinting
the key-note
from time to time.
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At the piano
