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The Tigers Bride-1

        My fat me to t at cards.

        trikes travellers from trees grories of cold     ure but o t uous air. t for you. And t Souts tarved brain; it gasps: "Luxury! more luxury!" But t escape it, it follo raer city    up    last, flog against to mock my fatations of perpetual pleasure as tand out and ture books. t, acrid gouts of ely to ness folly,    more drauger t;grappa", rids    scraps of my inance.    Russia,    e nigs.    a burden all t o o donate all to t.

        Everyone y must play a     Milan, or, if t uand talian, t of te, provincial place, out of fased no o. I did not kno tay in its Decembral solitude h Milord.

        te. to tones, into your bones, into t insiself o our parlour, ial to ation    brougo our lodging? Not my profligate fatainly; table gave me back y, tying bottles, tide of till mask t cealed all tures of t but for t strayed, noowards myself.

        "La Bestia!" said our landlady, gingerly fingering an envelope    of a tiger rampant on it, somet ask er of tia --    to do ure -- because ongue ic speeake out a t, w;C;

        Since I could toddle, alty one, -bro; my Engliss said: "t; crossing t of respect for t blossom long; bartered for o sucy t sances. And t gave me tmoded button bruse rose, unnatural, out of season, t noal by petal, apart as my fatly cluded tastrophe.

        trospective region; a sunless, featureless landscape, ting fog, ty; ted to public executions, uling s malign barn of a co y urally to t so close togeta soaked in oil, boiled beef ter    tants    to you and c you, innkeepers, coachey fleeced us.

        treacer but fet you take it h you.

        My senses roubled by too potent a reek of purplis at sucers in so small a room.    bat, soak s and underlinen in it; w     needs so much camouflage?

        I never sae of t elegance of t, in tailcoat t migs looks,    in tant years before    feel imes. t li are on t side; and raint, as if figtle o remain uprigions to tanot mu any oted most beautifully on it. Oiful face; but one oo mucry of feature to be entirely oo perfect, uny. oo, false ied at traits. A ce silk stock stuck . And gloves of blond kid t are yet so    seem to cover hands.

        cards.

        distance as oops over    in    only ,    for er riloquist.

        ttered. By time my rose    all its petals, my fatoo,    hing.

        "Except t;

        Gambling is a siess. My fat aked er on a ; in t up ened, ood up on end,    stages of debaucs came out of t me, I s are coldest there.

        A queen, a king, an ace. I sa    lose me; besides, back , tunes of our family at one bloored. And s ary palazzo outside ty; s, reasure c, egnas, cellars, itles. . . ty itself.

        You must not t less t at no more than a kings ransom.

        It o me, c it    my fles, truly, my fat was in peril.

        My fat gambler does not? In pursuit of just suc travelled from ting stars?

        So eetered on the brink.

        t bayed; laid dohree remaining aces.

        t servants noo douse to look at t not tle resentfully; it    m. e    t of bed. ts man broug amongst tions for departure, staring on at trayal of able.

        ts man informed me crisply t , omorro ten, and duct me forto ts palazzo. Capisco? So s I scarcely did capisco; ed my orders patiently, rale man wing r in curious, wedge-shaped shoes.

        e as t caked the windowpane. his eyes swam; soon he would cry.

        " Like t; oric. " One ;

        At t, t made a sudden, dreadful noise, , te, interpreted unblinkingly: "My master says: If you are so careless of your treasures, you s to be taken from you."

        er could not offer us and ted.

        I cil, just before da stopped falling; a    settled,    m t like iron.

        ts carriage, of a if antique design, amped upon tly appearance of life to give me some    not all ttle to ter t day, I    o the ce.

        t sat up on tty blad gold livery, clasping, of all ters damned    of floo any ioural agility to place tant hand.

        My tear-beslobbered fats a rose to s I five em, I prick my finger and so s h blood.

        t y feet to tuck t me range kind of unflattering obsequiousness yet    ation suffitly to scratce peri my old nurse . And pity? No pity.    and bro baby. ating    of ctering to ime as ers ains to ceal t of my fate was sharp as broken glass.

        Lost to t! And ure of ;beastliness"? My Englisold me about a tiger-man stle girl, to scare me into good be tame me into submission    stop plaguing ty, tiger-man ake you a ra, in ts were all he head downwards did he resemble a man.

        A goes al ot be    looks like mine.

        But tiger-man, in spite of ake a glass of ale in ian and drink it doeps of Upper Moor Fields oo. t, if t a good little girl and did    root, tiger-man    on ravelling cloak lined    like your daddys, and    straigo the nursery and --

        Yes, my beauty! GOBBLE YOU UP!

        ed terror,    seased me. And t I must not tell    farmyard, ed me into teries of o t ter.    let on to your nursie -eyed, ugly as sin, o lers and    a proved it. But, side ted to besides being able to tell which eggs would bee cocks, which hens.

        ts once broug and    go back to turbed it until t     not?

        Old ales, nursery fears! I kneion I cosily titillated itious marvels of my cal in today Id make my first iment.

        e    ty far beraversing a    disilated stumps of te    frozen ditc diminis doil it seemed no more t oarveling,    t    bouquet into t-stiff mud of ted my face    lifted suffitly to reveal before me an acreage of    facades of s man-trap, tadel of his palazzo.

        It self but a dead one, a burned-out pla. I sa bougude, not luxury, h his money.

        ttle black rotted smartly t stood open to t    of to tiles of t self, into table, s    drummings of    beall roof, s; a dozen gracile muzzles lifted from turo. t ed, aptly enoug and blossether.

        t tely at my sleeve. Milord is ing.

        Gaping doors and broken    ted oaircase after anot clopping on tes of vaulted c of anotems of Co te plexity of tirring; and all ture    ss, tures taken from to ter could not bear to look at tled, as if its o to move    o live in an unined place.

        t darted me a reassuring glance from    eyes, yet a gla it did not e, and    bounding aly ctering to    for all my pride, my    was heavy.

        Milord ifling, darkened room; ters locked at noon. I    of breatime uro ed me. I    smile.    smile.

        In urbed privacy, t    of Ottoman design, a loose, dull purple go falls from o ceal . t of ts in are ificial masterpiece of e. A rustles tters.

        t cougo e task of transmitting to me ers er --"

        A stick fell i made a migter in t dreadful sile started, lost ;My master    one desire."

        t    us, asds in cursive blue from t. ";

        Noy, t ttered, er, rivial, may yet sound unbearably i in t and    trived to unleasuated flood.

        "My masters sole desire is to see tty young lady unclot    only for time after o    to my master at cards and also a number of fine presents suc;

        I remaianding. During tervie noo ,    even as    for ato, molto agitato, t wrung e-gloved hands.

        "Desnuda --"

        I could scarcely believe my ears. I let out a raucous guffao remonstrate. But I did. And do. At tless mirt danced backurbation, palpitatiing to ing,    t I o to o make my reply in as exquisite a tus as I could master.

        "You may put me in a    up to my , ready for you. But t be a s over my face, to ; t must be laid over me so lig it    cely from t uper t I must be driven directly to ty and deposited in t of to give me moo receive it. But I must stress t you s of mo you o any otances.    to give me a present, t is y;

        o see I struck t to t! For, after a bakers dozes, one siear stering, at tear! A tear, I ear trembled for a moment on an edge of painted boumbled doed co fall,    tinkle, on tiled floor.

        t, tig and clug to ily us of ters perfume billo into ted itself on the spinning winds.
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