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But Annina had sparks of fire in her brown eyes, and panted as she tugged at her staylaces. It was not long before she clattered downstairs on her clacking heels, and went to mark the cage they had gilded for her dear Ippolita.
Should my friends part with it to thy enemy, old Beppo, thy father will rue the hour!" Annina, who was much addicted to consulting her interests on all occasions, cast a longing glance at the boat. The canopy was closed, but it was large, and her willing imagination readily induced her to fancy it well filled with skins from Naples. "This will be the last of thy visits to our door, Gino?"
Again the soft eyes of Gelsomina, or Gessina, as she was familiarly called, dropped to the floor; but raising them ere he could note the circumstance, she hurriedly continued the discourse. "I fear Annina will return, or I would go with thee at once." "Is this cousin of thine still here, then?" asked the Bravo, with uneasiness. "Thou knowest I would not be seen." "Fear not.
She has received a largess from the Neapolitan, of wines grown on his Calabrian mountains, and wishing to tamper with my honesty, she offered the liquor to me, expecting one like me to forget my duty, and to aid her in deceiving the Republic." "Can this be true, Annina!" "Why should I deceive thee!
"Thou art at thy ease, here, Gelsomina," cried the latter, entering and throwing herself into a seat, like one fatigued. "Thy mother is better, and thou art truly mistress of the house." "I would I were not, Annina; for I am young to have this trust, with this affliction." "It is not so insupportable, Gessina, to be mistress within doors, at seventeen! Authority is sweet, and obedience is odious."
Annina supposed it was returning to the square, the place she would have sought had she been alone, and Gelsomina, who believed that he whom she called Carlo, toiled regularly as a gondolier for support, fancied, of course, that he was taking her to her ordinary residence. But though the innocent can endure the scorn of the world, it is hard indeed to be suspected by those they love.
The goat-herd kept summoning his customers with a long musical whistle. Mallard leaned over and watched the clean-fleeced, slender, graceful animals with a smile of pleasure. Then he amused himself with something that was going on in the house opposite. A woman came out on to a balcony high up, bent over it, and called, "Annina!
On the floor in a shining heap lay the silk robes, the chains and jewels, only witness with Annina of what had been done. That same Annina clasped in her arms the tall boy. "Oh, my dear, my dear!" she said, half sobbing, "if any ill should come of this I shall kill myself." "No ill will come, Nannina, believe me," replied Ippolita, quite calm. "You are sure they expect me?"
If your eccellenza has discovered that the Senate has shut up the Signora Tiepolo in the prison of St. Mark, for safe-keeping, it is no fault of mine." "Thy artifice is useless, Annina," observed Don Camillo, calmly.
"Thou hast served before this, Annina?" she asked, so loud as to permit the words to be heard in the oratory. "Never a lady so beautiful and illustrious, Signora. But I hope to make myself agreeable to one that I hear is kind to all around her."
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