A Parisian Romance — page 171: what you’re looking at

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162 A PARISIAN ROMANCE, Juliani was silent a moment, and then he said, with some hesitation: © “T am fully aware, madam, that I am touching upon a delicate subject, but there has been a change in your financial condition. You make no mystery of it, and——” “No, it would be difficult to do that!” interrupted Marcelle, bitterly, with a glance about the small, simply furnished room. Poor Marcelle! Her new-formed resolutions were rapidly melting away. The quick-witted tenor was not slow to catch the ring of discontent in her voice, and he continued, drawing his chair a little closer, and speaking with great animation: | “You bear your misfortunes with all the courage and all the dignity in the world—and yet it is im- possible that you do not suffer from them both on your own account and on the account of those who are dear to you. Now, you have been endowed with talents, which you have cultivated, which in a very short space of time could return to you a great part, if not all of what you have lost, and you refuse to utilize them! Really, it is incredible! It is culpable!” His piercing, brilliant eyes were still fixed upon her, and Marcelle, like a bird beneath the gaze of a snake, felt fascinated. What he said was so true! “But,” she began, hesitatingly, “in the first place, it is very easy to talk of my talents, but who knows GEomichooks.com