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"This is nice enough," she said incisively. "It takes away the taste of the jumbled dressing room, but it makes me all the readier for the real thing—the people and the lights and the dancing. I simply can't waste another instant," and she parted the heavy fold and they slipped into the radiant Arabian land of fairy.,"I knows es you wor at that devilry," he said, nervously. "When you claps your eyes on me I gets afeard.","You've got to make butterflies of the wire-loops, you know, to hold the clay up, or it'll slump down off the iron headpiece soon as you get your head set up," explained her instructor in an agreeable tone. "It's easier to set up a head than a figure, I can tell you——","We intend doing so.","Dido! Dido!" remonstrated Mrs. Dallas, shaking the woman. "Rise; stop.","It isn't stuffy," defended Judith with a flash. "It's a nice, crackling word, and I got it from Arnold Bennet, if you want to know. He uses it all the time. And I've got another, too—'inept'—and that's what you are now, Patricia Kendall. I'm ashamed of your extreme indifference to the beauties of your own language.","They do look a bit queer," admitted Elinor, reluctantly. "Perhaps when you've worked on them more——",Judith was silent for the most part, but her eyes glowed like live coals and she kept tossing her pale, straight mane in the way she had when pleasantly excited.,CHAPTER XV. CROSS-EXAMINATION.,"And no wonder," said Etwald, counting off events on his fingers. "The devil-stick, the murder, the theft of the body. This is a catalogue of horrors. A man might do worse than write a story on these things.",CHAPTER XIII. ISABELLA.,"Go away, girl," he said in his rudest manner; "don't you see I'm busy?".