Out of the Past — page 91: what you’re looking at

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88 Out of the Past. their birth. Here there was peace, and from her peace profound she played to Saline’s wild beasts. M. Vignaud entered unnoticed. Standing by the door, he looked from Rose to Saline, and glanced attentively over the room and back again, then quietly waited with a dark flush crimsoning his face. Rose finished in a dead silence, with a dizzy sensation of falling as she looked about her. M. Vignaud walked down the room without noticing any one and offered his arm to Rose with a stately bow. “You have done us too great an honor, mademoiselle. If you will allow me, we will go where there is refresh- ment. I imagine you have been playing a long while. Some are thoughtless. What I heard from your violin just now told of a higher life than this.” Saline rose to meet him, but he passed her with few words. “Not yet, madame.” “This is scandalous!’ exclaimed Yvette. “Before Sa- line’s very eyes!” At the door-way of the dining-room M. Vignaud turned a benumbing glance at them over his shoulder. . No one dared follow. There was only a whispered stir in the large room while its occupants watched the comedy through the doors. They had never seen M. Vignaud GoOmicsooks (e(0)