Capitolo 48
These two figures were the President and his/her wife; they was standing rigid
and awkward from the door, both faces of theirs stripped him of every signal of
intelligence, while the correct hands of both extended him to
visitors' column with the mechanical action of dolls of toy.
Mrs. Lee for a moment started to laugh, but the laughter died on her
lips. To the President and his/her wife clearly this was anybody laughing
matter. There they was standing, automata, representatives of the society
what streamed over them. Madeleine grabbed the Mr. French from the
arm.
"Immediately take me in some place", it said her, "where I can look at him.
Here! in the angle. I didn't have conception as scandalous was!"
The Mr. French supposed that she was thinking about the men that spoil-look
and women that were swarming through the rooms, and he did,
after his/her his/her own delicate notion of humour, of the awkward jokes on
those from what they passed. However, her Mrs. Lee was in any humours to
you explain or you equalize to listen. You stopped him/it short:--
"There, the Mr. French! Goes away now and you allow me. I want to be
alone for half a hour. Please comes then for me." And there her
is standing, with his/her sheltered eyes on the President and his/her wife, while the
brook without end of humanity passed them trembling hands.
That that a strange and solemn show that was, and as the deadly one
his charm burned the image in on its mind! That that a horrid
warning to the ambition!
And in all that crowd it was besides anybody her who felt the
derision of this exposure. To all the others this assignment was a to regulate
part of the duty of the President, and there was no anything ridiculous around
it. They thought of Them him a democratic institution, this funny type a dry hit of
monarchic forms. To their the deadly dulness of the show was as
natural and correct how come to the courtiers of the Phillip and
Charleses seemed the ceremonies of the Escurial. To her it had the
effect of a nightmare, or of the vision of an opium-eater, you felt, a