18/25 Oh, that I were cold-blooded like your women, that I could eat out my heart in secret; but I can't, I can't!" "But you have courage; only use it. If what you say of him is true, rest easy. She will not be impressed by an adventurer of his breed." "Thank you!" with a broken laugh. "I am only an opera-singer, here on suffrance." "Oh, good Lord! I did not mean it that way. |