The Place of Honeymoons

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MacGrath Harold. The Place of Honeymoons

CHAPTER I. AT THE STAGE DOOR

CHAPTER II. THERE IS A WOMAN?

CHAPTER III. THE BEAUTIFUL TIGRESS

CHAPTER IV. THE JOKE OF MONSIEUR

CHAPTER V. CAPTIVE OR RUNAWAY

CHAPTER VI. THE BIRD BEHIND BARS

CHAPTER VII. BATTLING JIMMIE

CHAPTER VIII. MOONLIGHT AND A PRINCE

CHAPTER IX. COLONEL CAXLEY-WEBSTER

CHAPTER X. MARGUERITES AND EMERALDS

CHAPTER XI. AT THE CRATER’S EDGE

CHAPTER XII. DICK COURTLANDT’S BOY

CHAPTER XIII. EVERYTHING BUT THE TRUTH

CHAPTER XIV. A COMEDY WITH MUSIC

CHAPTER XV. HERR ROSEN’S REGRETS

CHAPTER XVI. THE APPLE OF DISCORD

CHAPTER XVII. THE BALL AT THE VILLA

CHAPTER XVIII. PISTOLS FOR TWO

CHAPTER XIX. COURTLANDT TELLS A STORY

CHAPTER XX. JOURNEY’S END

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Courtlandt sat perfectly straight; his ample shoulders did not touch the back of his chair; and his arms were folded tightly across his chest. The characteristic of his attitude was tenseness. The nostrils were well defined, as in one who sets the upper jaw hard upon the nether. His brown eyes – their gaze directed toward the stage whence came the voice of the prima donna – epitomized the tension, expressed the whole as in a word.

Just now the voice was pathetically subdued, yet reached every part of the auditorium, kindling the ear with its singularly mellowing sweetness. To Courtlandt it resembled, as no other sound, the note of a muffled Burmese gong, struck in the dim incensed cavern of a temple. A Burmese gong: briefly and magically the stage, the audience, the amazing gleam and scintillation of the Opera, faded. He heard only the voice and saw only the purple shadows in the temple at Rangoon, the oriental sunset splashing the golden dome, the wavering lights of the dripping candles, the dead flowers, the kneeling devoteés, the yellow-robed priests, the tatters of gold-leaf, fresh and old, upon the rows of placid grinning Buddhas. The vision was of short duration. The sigh, which had been so long repressed, escaped; his shoulders sank a little, and the angle of his chin became less resolute; but only for a moment. Tension gave place to an ironical grimness. The brows relaxed, but the lips became firmer. He listened, with this new expression unchanging, to the high note that soared above all others. The French horns blared and the timpani crashed. The curtain sank slowly. The audience rustled, stood up, sought its wraps, and pressed toward the exits and the grand staircase. It was all over.

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“I am afraid.” And she was so. This wasn’t the tone of a man madly in love. It was wild anger.

“Afraid of what?”

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