and run up the stairs to your own little room."

Cherry obeyed, calling back, as she disappeared, "Tell them I will
dance some more for them by and by if they want me to."






CHAPTER XVII.

WHOLESALE MURDER.





IN the course of that day, Giovanni and his little danseuse visited
all the principal public places in the town, and also several of the
best private houses; and, at all, the performances of the child
called forth the surprise, delight, and admiration of those who
witnessed them. Nor were more substantial proofs of their approval
wanting; so that at night, when Giovanni counted up his gains, he
found them so large, that he cried, while embracing poor weary
little Cherry,--

"O blessed, blessed moment when thou didst cross my path, Ciriegia
carissima!"