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I said, "but I suppose there is nothing to prevent it." "Nothing at all. In my family I have had many ambassadors, but that was a little formerly. Once a Filgiatti married with a Medici but these things are better for Mistra and Madame Wick to inquire." "Poppa is very much interested in antiquities, but I'm afraid there will hardly be time, Count Filgiatti." "Listen, I will say all!
"Then why do you go away?" "Our time is so limited." "Ah, Mees Wick, you have all of your life." The Italians certainly have exquisite voices. "That is true," I said thoughtfully. "Many young American ladies now live always in Italy," pursued Count Filgiatti. "Is that so?" I replied pleasantly. "They are domiciled here with their parents?" "Y yes. Sometimes it is like that. And sometimes "
It's all very well to say I should have dismissed him long before this, but I should like to know on what grounds? "I wish very much to write my mother that I have found the American lady for a new Countess Filgiatti," he said at last with emotion. "Well," I said awkwardly, "I hope you will find her." "Ah, Mees Wick," exclaimed the Count recklessly, "you are that American lady.
Always they have been much too large, the families Filgiatti. So now perhaps we are a little reduce. But there is still somethings-ah signorina, can you pardon that I speak these things, but the time is so small there is fifteen hundred lire yearly revenue to my pocket." "About three hundred dollars," I observed sympathetically. Count Filgiatti nodded with the smile of a conscious capitalist.
The Italian gentleman has a dignity of his. He is perhaps from a family a little old. It is nothing the matter is of the heart but it makes possible the arrangimento." "I have read of such things before," I said, "in the newspapers. It is most amusing to hear them corroborated on the spot. But that is one of the charms of travel, Count Filgiatti."
He still hesitated and I remembered that the Filgiatti intelligence probably dated from the Middle Ages, and had undergone very little alteration since. "You have made such a short visit," I said. "I must be a very bad substitute for momma and poppa." A flash of comprehension illuminated my visitor's countenance. "I pray that you do not think such a wrong thing," he said impulsively.
Malt, Emmeline Malt, and Miss Callis, not one of them missing. The Malts whom we had left at Rome, left in the same hotel with Count Filgiatti, and to some purpose apparently, for seated attentively next to Mrs. Malt there also was that diminutive nobleman. As a family we saw at a glance that America was not likely to be the poorer by one Count in spite of the way we had behaved to him.
So I am spoken." At this I rose immediately. I would not have it on my conscience that I toyed with the matrimonial proposition of even an Italian Count. "I think I understand you, Count Filgiatti," I said There is something about the most insignificant proposal that makes one blush in a perfectly absurd way. I have never been able to get over it "and I fear I must bring this interview to a close.
And if it is a good arrangimento it is always quite quite happy." "We are said," I observed thoughtfully, "to be able, as a people, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances." "You approve this idea! Signorina, you are so amiable, it is heavenly." "I see no objection to it," I said. "It is entirely a matter of taste." "And the American ladies have much taste," observed Count Filgiatti blandly.
It was interesting to observe the slight embarrassment with which Count Filgiatti re-encountered his earlier American vision, and his re-assurance when I gave him the bow of the most travelling of acquaintances. Nothing was further from my thoughts than interfering.
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