We believed she loved him; we believed it was because of that she married him.

And yet--and yet--Ah, monsieur, how can I fail to feel as I do when this change in the lion came with that man's coming?
And she--ah, monsieur, she is always with him.

Why does she curry favour of him and his rich friend ?" "He has a rich friend, then ?" "Yes, monsieur.

The company was in difficulties; Monsieur van Zant, the proprietor, could not make it pay, and it was upon the point of disbanding.

But, suddenly, this indifferent performer, this rider who is, after all, but a poor amateur and not fit to appear with a company of trained artists, suddenly this Signor Martinelli comes to Monsieur van Zant to say that, if he will engage him, he has a rich friend--one Senor Sperati, a Brazilian coffee planter--who will 'back' the show with his money and buy a partnership in it.