DOI Artikel:
D'Arcy, Ella: The pleasure-pilgrim
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21806#0047
By Ella D’Arcy 43
one memorable day last October froin the Kronprinz Hotel at
Waldeck-Pyrmont. By the bye, it was the Clamps, I believe,
who told her of the Castle—hotel acquaintances—you know how
travelling Americans always cotton to each other. And we’ve
picked up a few little biographical notes from her and Miss Dodge
since. Zum Beispiel, she’s got a rieh father somewhere away back
in Michigan, who supplies her with all the money she wants.
And she’s been travelling about since last May: Paris, Vienna,
the Rhine, Düsseldorf, and so on here. She must have had some
rieh experiences, by Jove. For she’s done everything. Cycled in
Paris : you should see her in her cycling costume ; she wears it
when the Baron takes her out shooting—she’s an admirable shot,
by the way, an accomplishment learned, I suppose, from some
American cow-boy. Then in Berlin she did a month’s hospital
nursing ; and now she’s studying the higher branches of the
Terpsichorean art. You know she was in Hanover to-day. Did
she teil you what she went for ? ”
“ To take a singing lesson,” said Campbell, remembering the
reason she had given.
“ A singing lesson ! Do you sing with your legs ? A dancing
lesson, mein lieber. A dancing lesson from the ballet-master of the
Hof Theater. She could deposit a kiss on your forehead with her
foot, I don’t doubt. I wonder if she can do the grand ecart yet.”
And when Campbell, in astonishment, wondered why on earth she
should wish to do such things, “ Oh, to extend her opportunities,”
Mayne explained, “ and to acquire fresh sensations. She’s an
adventuress. Yes, an adventuress, but an end-of-the-century one.
She doesn’t travel for profit, but for pleasure. She has no desire to
swindle her neighbour of dollars, but to amuse herseif at his expense.
And she’s clever ; she’s read a good deal ; she knows how to apply
her reading to practical life. Thus, she’s learned from Herrick
not
one memorable day last October froin the Kronprinz Hotel at
Waldeck-Pyrmont. By the bye, it was the Clamps, I believe,
who told her of the Castle—hotel acquaintances—you know how
travelling Americans always cotton to each other. And we’ve
picked up a few little biographical notes from her and Miss Dodge
since. Zum Beispiel, she’s got a rieh father somewhere away back
in Michigan, who supplies her with all the money she wants.
And she’s been travelling about since last May: Paris, Vienna,
the Rhine, Düsseldorf, and so on here. She must have had some
rieh experiences, by Jove. For she’s done everything. Cycled in
Paris : you should see her in her cycling costume ; she wears it
when the Baron takes her out shooting—she’s an admirable shot,
by the way, an accomplishment learned, I suppose, from some
American cow-boy. Then in Berlin she did a month’s hospital
nursing ; and now she’s studying the higher branches of the
Terpsichorean art. You know she was in Hanover to-day. Did
she teil you what she went for ? ”
“ To take a singing lesson,” said Campbell, remembering the
reason she had given.
“ A singing lesson ! Do you sing with your legs ? A dancing
lesson, mein lieber. A dancing lesson from the ballet-master of the
Hof Theater. She could deposit a kiss on your forehead with her
foot, I don’t doubt. I wonder if she can do the grand ecart yet.”
And when Campbell, in astonishment, wondered why on earth she
should wish to do such things, “ Oh, to extend her opportunities,”
Mayne explained, “ and to acquire fresh sensations. She’s an
adventuress. Yes, an adventuress, but an end-of-the-century one.
She doesn’t travel for profit, but for pleasure. She has no desire to
swindle her neighbour of dollars, but to amuse herseif at his expense.
And she’s clever ; she’s read a good deal ; she knows how to apply
her reading to practical life. Thus, she’s learned from Herrick
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