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1. Theatre
2. Such businesslike lines. He says the way some of those firms in the city keep
3. Moment his secretary came in.
4. Knew the room so well, idly looked about her. It was a very proper room for
5. And to balance it a photograph of Roger, their son.
6. Secretary.
7. Turned round and stood up.
8. Air of an ambassador presenting an attachй to the sovereign of the court to
9. Amused, friendly tenderness.
10. Emblazoned on the doors. Julia got in.
11. So she took his hand and held it.
12. The young man forced himself to make a remark.
13. You would have thought his observation had taken a weight off her mind.
14. Plays. Of course, I have a man to do the rough work for me, but the ideas are
15. Breaking out of a brown study, said No thank you.
16. Michael to a glass of dry white wine, and he left the room.
17. Twenty, and for years, wet or fine, he had got up every morning at eight to put
18. Make something out of it. Of course we had to cut the other woman a lot in
19. That his clothes fitted and that he wore them well. He looked nice and clean.
20. Little larger than life-size.
21. Eminent K.C. who says clever, witty things and turns people round his little
22. Julia gave the young man a delightful, but slightly deprecating smile.
23. The boy gulped down what was left in his cup and Julia rose from the table.
24. One to the young man.
25. Was a melting look in her fine eyes.
26. Julia Lambert.
27. In the same cupboard.
28. Enormous success.
29. In the papers.
30. But he was obstinate.
31. Tall for a woman, and she had long legs.
32. A comedy line, seemed to sound all wrong when she spoke it.
33. She could make you hear her every word in the last row of the gallery; they
34. Experience in modern plays.
35. Which was fortunate, for he was a bad actor.
36. Right intonation himself he would never let a false one pass in anyone else.
37. Ran down his cheeks.
38. Trooper felt like Charles Kean.
39. Go far.
40. Used to hang about the stage door to see him go out.
41. Hysteria than of passion.
42. Earthquake were going to swallow you up next minute, to hell with the
43. Her own career had been singularly lacking in hardship. She was born in
44. Frenchwoman.
45. Julia her first lessons.
46. Manner which is so artificial and yet so wonderfully dramatic.
47. Made deliberate that wonderful sense of timing which Julia had by instinct
48. Waitress.
49. Asked her to lunch with him next day she accepted.
50. He took no notice of the flippant rejoinder.
51. Look anything, even beautiful, the face that can show every thought that passes
52. Get an audience to look at you before you speak. You make up too much. With
53. Play twenty parts a year. Ibsen, Shaw, Barker, Sudermann, Hankin,
54. Performances and then have you go away to play some twopenny-halfpenny
55. Information.
56. But Jimmie Langton was wrong there.
57. As Magda. She was a great hit and then in quick succession he made her play
58. Report on her. They were doubtful. She was all very well in Shaw and Ibsen,
59. Choice one would have expected him to make, for in that part his great beauty
60. Was an asset and his lack of warmth no disadvantage.
61. Nothing to do but act eight times a week attended the rehearsals.
62. Generations.
63. Langton and then go to London.
64. Insisted on this.
65. She told him fondly.
66. At one time there was some talk of putting him in the university boat.
67. To him than a comrade.
68. Yet she knew that he was not in love with anybody else. The love-letters that
69. Have some irate father coming along and saying, now you must marry the
70. Everything in twenty-four hours. And when you start a thing like that you
71. Julia told a thumping lie.
72. Months, and you know what the public is, unless they see you all the time they
73. Thought never entered his lovely head.
74. Dreamt what ecstatic pleasure it gave her to spend her money on him.
75. For change.
76. Modest to resent an unfavourable criticism.
77. Remained serene. It was impossible to quarrel with him. One day he was
78. Julia came through the pass door and sat down beside Michael.
79. He took a handkerchief out of his pocket and dried his eyes.
80. Presently he blew his nose.
81. To her with absorbed interest.
82. He was being very serious.
83. Would be madness to start in management unless one had at least three plays.
84. IT was getting on for Easter, and Jimmie Langton always closed his theatre
85. Beamed.
86. Knew your father was a vet. When I wrote and asked if I could bring you
87. Years had been content to work in his garden and play bridge at his club.
88. Suit her.
89. Were taking stock of her. The thought flashed through her mind that Michael
90. Ingenuous girl who had lived a quiet country life.
91. With him.
92. Ear playfully.
93. Coloured servants, but how nice the society was, only army people and Indian
94. To the fire, lit a cigarette.
95. Against her ribs.
96. Know that you can act me off the stage, but we get on together like a house on
97. He broke away from her and went to the door.
98. Michael watched the affecting scene with sympathy.
99. Gladly have married him there and then, but his good sense prevailed.
100. He was too honourable to take advantage of her.
101. Allowing Julia to make love to him.
102. To feel his hold on her tighten a little and to see the tenderness in his eyes.
103. Equal passion in him.
104. Feeling for her she worked like a dog to play well.
105. Wait in the lobby while Michael saw the great man.
106. Face an eager, happy smile, she felt that her muscles were stiff and hard.
107. The crowded street to walk.
108. Able to live on fifty dollars a week at the outside, they say the Americans are
109. Casual.
110. Michael gave her his sweet, good-natured smile.
111. Himself. He was surprised, but pleased, to see her.
112. Strong and violent.
113. Cheek, for he had hurt her. She burst out crying.
114. Of whisky, added a drop of soda, and made her drink it.
115. You that I said to him he could have anyone in the company he liked with the
116. Very clever little trick.
117. Julia giggled, and Jimmie felt the worst of the scene was over.
118. Julia did not condescend to reply. She was really very unhappy.
119. Broken my heart and ruined my whole life just to keep me in your rotten
120. Him was caustic in his comments.
121. And Julia knew that he had not made good.
122. He smiled ironically.
123. In the empty carriage and looked at herself in the glass.
124. Pleasure.
125. Round his neck, her cheek against his.
126. She kissed him fondly.
127. Have been made unhappy, but, oh, she was so relieved.
128. Julia could hardly believe her ears.
129. Hers. Then she gave a sigh.
130. Her to her room she held up her face to his.
131. Fall upon it. A tear.
132. Frantic scenes.
133. Ridiculous.
134. To heaven.
135. She gave him a look of scorn.
136. Illustrated papers.
137. Business. He eventually got a part in a costume play.
138. That she could go out to France too and at least be on the same soil as he, but
139. Acting, and she could not resist what might very well be his dying request.
140. Legion of Honour.
141. Would ever enjoy on earth.
142. He was as safe as a house, he only said that to reassure her, and even generals
143. Breezy manner and military carriage he looked every inch a soldier.
144. Been so badly wounded that they had got their discharge.
145. Abstinence he was amorous.
146. Get his desire satisfied quickly, turn over on his side, and go to sleep.
147. Stretched her legs out in bed and sighed with relief.
148. Definitely a man.
149. Down in good time for her confinement.
150. Stood in one of the bedrooms.
151. He liked to share a bed with her. Though not passionate he was affectionate,
152. Her greatest comfort. The thought now filled her with irritation.
153. Anyone but himself.
154. Inherited nearly four thousand pounds, and this with his own savings and
155. Whom he was interested.
156. Who was interested not in him but in Julia.
157. She could for them. She had seen Julia act in Middlepool.
158. Bags, vanity cases, strings of beads in semiprecious stones, brooches; but
159. Admiration for her talent.
160. Him. Julia refused to approach her.
161. Had given Michael for his birthday.
162. Opportunity that the week-end presented.
163. Must have cost at least two hundred pounds.
164. Julia did.
165. Little knock at her door and Dolly came in. Her great black eyes were shining.
166. And there was a little tremor in it.
167. She gave him a little reflective look.
168. Reading a novel, Michael came in with a manuscript in his hand.
169. Her maid (who was also her dresser) to tell Michael she was ready for him.
170. He caught something doubtful in her tone.
171. Kneeling by her side put his arms round her.
172. When she looked at him now she wondered what there was in him that had
173. Nothing of a fitting in the morning, he accepted the situation with equanimity.
174. Pity for him because she no longer loved him.
175. Amusing, rather touching trait, now revolted her.
176. Looked upon himself as devilish generous when he parted with a guinea, and a
177. Penny a pound cheaper than elsewhere.
178. Unkind things she had for so long been thinking of him.
179. The expense of hiring.
180. Failure and this was succeeded by another.
181. Actress in England. There are only three people who bring money into the
182. Look at her without suspecting that she had a high blood pressure.
183. Interested in management.
184. Was acting and thus could not give them all his time.
185. He was getting more out of her than any other director had done.
186. Continue to direct their plays.
187. He thought the part was worth.
188. Than he she wanted to pay all these expenses herself.
189. Live with a man who was such a monster of vanity.
190. Outrageously vain of his person.
191. Into it.
192. That she might do for a part he had in mind.
193. Friendship should cease.
194. Carefully one by one. She shrugged her shoulders.
195. Love had died she felt that life had cheated her. She sighed.
196. Unbelievably self-satisfied.
197. She chose.
198. She would not have them replaced.
199. Evie drew her forefinger across the base of her nostrils and sniffed.
200. Now and slipped between the sheets.
201. Thousand pounds. I can play all my old parts. Of course even at sixty I could
202. Chat with her.
203. Side to him. And terribly good-looking. My word.
204. Tomato soup; treacle pudding and cherry tart. Cream, cream, cream. And so
205. In a vase.
206. Some roses for her.
207. Julia plastered her face with grease paint.
208. Gushing note of thanks for his beautiful flowers.
209. Was about to step from the world of make-believe into the world of reality.
210. Publicity.
211. Acquired the reputation of a wit.
212. Them copy her clothes. She was always beautifully dressed.
213. For a week-end gave them adjoining rooms.
214. Actress, had made her first great success in London.
215. Gracious smile.
216. Lady Charles for a moment did not quite know what to say.
217. Began to speak of her as Madame de Lambert.
218. That by so doing she put them in their place.
219. Which indeed he was, and he had exquisite manners.
220. Sudden that she had genius.
221. Museum, and she really enjoyed it almost as much as she said.
222. Was often silent.
223. Himself when she had once got it into his head that there was nothing doing.
224. To go. He took a miniature out of his pocket and gave it to her.
225. Faint smile.
226. Spoke his voice was hoarse with emotion.
227. Again she gave a little nod.
228. Arms. When he went away she got up and looked in the glass.
229. She heard Michael come in and called out to him.
230. To extract more substantial alimony from the innocent husband.
231. Emergency or go to for comfort in any disappointment.
232. Bred, so cultured, she could not think of him as a lover. It would be like going
233. Well lost.
234. She could not bear the thought of his wasting his life over her.
235. But Michael had perfect health.
236. That language.
237. Her she was conscious of their glances.
238. The monosyllable had betrayed her. A chuckle travelled over the wire.
239. A chorus girl. It was rather funny when you came to think of it.
240. Some fashionable place where people would stare at her. It proved that he
241. Cheek to ask her.
242. Opened and he stood before her.
243. Milk-jug. The crockery was of the cheapest sort.
244. Away from her in fancy and she felt strangely young again.
245. Struggling actress. It was rather delicious. It needed a gesture, but she could
246. Examination.
247. Looked incredibly clean.
248. She would put on her hat and say good-bye to him.
249. Not know what she felt.
250. Took his head in her hands and kissed his lips.
251. He chuckled.
252. Attached to the bells on the lintel.
253. What it is. I might have been a waiting-maid. In a hoop, with those funny puffy
254. Brother had ravished me of the most precious treasure a young woman in my
255. Stretched herself out.
256. Just finished making-up. He was startled.
257. Into her dressing-room.
258. Dance, but not to dance with Michael, to dance with Louis XV or Ludwig of
259. Had in point of fact never been able to think of it since without a chuckle.
260. Right and there would be one waiting for her at the station in Paris.
261. Was very sorry, but he could do nothing for her.
262. The conductors could not manage for a tip.
263. Face; there were two bare patches under the corners of his mouth.
264. Have been more than thirty. She wondered if he was a Spanish Grandee.
265. Cigarette-case with a gold crown on it.
266. She gave him a lingering look of her splendid eyes.
267. Case that were in the rack to the carriage madame had just left.