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"Well, this is something à faire dresser les cheveux. The beautiful and accomplished Miss Monteneros avowing her interest in the obscure and freezing Willis! Rachel—spare my feelings, je suis jaloux comme un tigre."

"And habited like a tiger," she said carelessly, as she turned away; and taking the arm of one of her school friends, several of whom had been invited to the fête, "Let us go and set the dancers off. I am in that state of mind that I could dance in desperation, or sing, or laugh, or do anything extravagant."

"You are in one of your moods, my dear, as we used to call them at school," answered her friend, "when you used to begin to cry just as you were making us all laugh by your gaiety."

"'I have a smiling face,' she said,
'I have a jest for all I meet,
I have a garland for my head,
And all its flowers are sweet,
And so you call me gay,' she said,
'Grief's earnest, is life's play,' she said."