And now I have here a
character. WILL you sit down? Is it of a necessity that up and down you
should walk and awaken the whole house? There!"--she had given him a
vicious dab with her fan as he passed. He sat down.
"And you have not seen me nor written to me for a year?"
"Carmen!"
"Sit down, you bold, bad boy. Don't you see it is of business that you
and I talk down here; and it is of business that ozzer people up stairs
are thinking. Eh?"
"D--n business! See here, Carmen, my darling, tell me"--I regret to say
he had by this time got hold of the back of Carmen's chair--"tell me, my
own little girl,--about--about that Senator. You remember what you said
to him?"
"Oh, the old man? Oh, THAT was business. And you say of business,
'd--n.'"
"Carmen!"
"Don Royal!"
*****
Although Miss Carmen had recourse to her fan frequently during this
interview, the air must have been chilly, for a moment later, on his way
down stairs, poor Harlowe, a sufferer from bronchitis, was attacked with
a violent fit of coughing, which troubled him all the way down.
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