They have already brought her
ill-fortune in the past, they have lowered her in the estimation of an
estimable person--in fact, if she is not very careful, indeed, even if
she be very careful--it looks to me, Madame, as if they would end by
strangling her!"
Sylvia became very uncomfortable. "Of course she means my pearls," she
whispered. "But how absurd to say they could ever do me harm."
"Look here," said Anna Wolsky earnestly, "you are quite right, Madame;
my friend has a necklace which has already played a certain part in her
life. But is it not just because of this fact that you feel the influence
of this necklace so strongly? I entreat you to speak frankly. You are
really distressing me very much!"
Madame Cagliostra looked very seriously at the speaker.
"Well, perhaps it is so," she said at last. "Of course, we are sometimes
wrong in our premonitions. And I confess that I feel puzzled--exceedingly
puzzled--to-day. I do not know that I have ever had so strange a case
as that of this English lady before me! I see so many roads stretching
before her--I also see her going along more than one road.
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