Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1909-05-05

lunch Win US tomorrow, SAID care.
will you come, you and Gigi? / sup
pose you COUNT dine with US. could
your"
I'm afraid not, thank you, for I'm
singing both tonight and tomorrow;
but shall be very glad to come
over to lunch"
He had a short, hard cough, which
made Clare look at him anxiously.
you look very poorly today. Carlo, .
snc said.
Il awoke TO the sad consciousness
that the wind had gone back 70 the
east" he said. laughing.
And that cough? It seems very
bad"
"Oh. it is only chronic.' he said.
with a smile I'VE have all suffered
more or less from the long winter. 1t
must be nearly over now. don't you
think?"
April and May are often nearly as
cold" said Kate, perversely.
Are they?' he said. with an ex-
pressiYe gesture. My friend Sardoni
has just given me a song called Wei
come, cold Northeastern, but the very
words make ones teeth chatter"
"One O'Clock tomorrow, them said
Clare, as they drove on again.
He took off his hat and bowed in
foreign fashion, and was sedulously
initiated by Gigi.
"Dreadfully ltaliani' said Kate,
whipping up the ponies with a touch
Of irritation in her manner. Il cant
bear a man to be a sort of barometer
pretending to know which way the
wind is before he had been out; such
nonsensei"
u have known many people with
susceptible chests who were able to
do that said Clare.
But no Englishman looks so niser-
able just because 1t happens to be a
cold day" said Kate. IT seems SC ef-
Terminate 10 mind little fresh air"
MY dear, If you had to work hard
through very hot summer in Italy,
do you not think you might look
flushed and oven tired?"
o"Ah. but to feel heat Is quite diff
ferent thing, protested Kate.
There's nothing unmanly in that /;
| why, don't you remember last August
how limp and goOd-for-n0thiug Harry
was in that very hot week."
Yes, because he was unused to it,
You are illogical, Kate; It is not a
bit more effeminate as you say, to
feel the physical effects of cold than
of heat; the only difference is that
you understand one feeling and don't
understand the other"
THAT may be-" said Kate, but !
don't like Signor DOnati; and as to
saying that he works hard why. what
man who is hardworked would be
sauntering down the High street like
that. with a child? | don't call his
sort OF profession work at all"
In the meantime. Carlo slowly made
his way back TO the hotel.
lie was 80 tired and oyerdone that il
was all he could do TO bear Gigi's
chatter. He wondered how he should
get through with his Count Rodolpho
remembered distastefully that he
should have TO make love 10 Made
moisclle de Caisne, who never wou'd
sink her own personality in that OF
Lisa, md would have given all he
possessed if any one had come to him
with the news that, for some good
reason there could be no opera that
nightF Everything in the future which
he had 10 undertake looked to him
| like a huge mountain which he must
perforce climb; and worst of ALL he
| knew that the instant he faltered Com.
eric would come forward and offer TO
take his place. If II had not been for
| that thought he could have BORNE up
! better, but the consciousness that Go
mez was carefully keeping wa,ch on his
health. like a vulture lowering over a
| dying man, and longing 10 swoop down
on him-ths was almost maddening
| He was troubled, too. about Sardoni
who. for the last day or two had been
unlike himself, moody. and melan.
choly in the daytime. and wild and
| reckless toward night. He seemed 10
shun CARO- as much as possible, and
when they were thrown together was
SO bitter and sarcastic that his friend
could not imagine what had come over
/ him; it was SO unreasonable, so alto
gether improbable. that the sermon OF
| Sunday night should stlll be ranking
IN his mind, that such notion never
occurred TO Carlo, He was altogether
perplexed. and felt very anxious about
| him. nor could he help perceiving
with Il pang. that i'm the time of his
own greatest need Sardoni had de
| serted him. wholly failing TO notice his
| desperate struggle 10 keep up. How
| he got through his work ne scarcely
knew; luckily for him. his throat was
! feeling far TOO weak and III to be in
NOT much affected. though he was
! feeling far too weak and III to be IN
good voice, At any rate, he did not
/ bTeak down. and he began TO see that,
/ AZ present he must content h'Ciself
with this poor comfort. and put up
/ with cold receptions and the wretched
| consciousness of artistic failure. He
went home wondering what poor old
Piale would have said could he have
heard him. and congratulated him.
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