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His invention was still at fault, and, for a wonder, he thought it the best policy to go pretty near the truth. "Why, I will tell you. The marchesa conceals nothing from her brother, and he is one of the few Italians who are in high favour with the Austrian court." "Well!" "And I suspect that poor Dr.
"I am charmed," he answered, without wincing. "It may be only those beautiful new clothes you have on," said Beatrice with a sweet smile. "Clothes make so much difference with a man." San Miniato did not show any annoyance, but he made no direct answer and turned to the Marchesa. "Marchesa gentilissima," he said, "you liked my last excursion, or were good enough to say that you liked it.
The Countess Brenda's daughter, Beatrice Brenda, in spite of her pea-hen air, was always endeavouring to stir up the Neapolitan and to start a conversation with him; but Carminatti in his light-hearted way would reply with a jest or a fatuous remark and betake himself again to the Marchesa Sciacca, who would make her disturbing children hush because they often prevented her from catching what the Neapolitan was saying.
It would surely have been enough, if he had waited until the following day and then formally asked her hand of the Marchesa. It would have been better, more natural in every way, just now when they had gone up to the table, if he had said simply that they loved one another and had asked her mother's blessing.
Seeing no present change, Trenta rose to go to the marchesa. His joints were so stiff he could not move at all without his stick, and the furrows which had deepened upon his face were moistened with tears. "Is Enrica no better?" the marchesa asked him, in a voice she tried to steady, but could not. She trembled all over. "Enrica is no better," he answered.
The marchesa, with a few kindly remarks about her dancing, would have let her return to her partners, but the duchess moved ponderously aside on the sofa, making a place for Nina. Without prelude she began, "Is it true that you have five hundred thousand dollars a year? Or is rumor mistaken is it only five hundred thousand lire?"
He abuses the municipality because a secret republican committee which he headed, in correspondence with Paris, has been discovered by the police and denounced. He had to escape in disguise." "Well, well, I rejoice to hear it!" broke in the marchesa. "It is a good Government; let him find a better. Why has he come to Lucca? We want no sans-culottes here."
Some colored prints hung on the walls a portrait of the Empress Eugénie on horseback, in a Spanish dress, and four glaring views of Vesuvius in full eruption. A divan, covered with well-worn chintz, ran round two sides of the room. Between the ranges of the graceful casements stood a marble console-table, with a mirror in a black frame. An open card-table was placed near the marchesa.
Bending his head, heavy with grief, he happened to notice the paper which the footman had placed in his pocket. It was a large black-edged envelope. He opened it, and read the name and titles of his poor old mother-in-law, the Marchesa Nene Seremin, and the simple words that followed: "IN PEACE." He was as one turned to stone, holding the open, sheet in his hand, his eyes fixed on the words.
The origin of Selwyn's interest in the child is obscure, but the story of his affection is striking and unusual. From a letter written by the Marchesa Fagniani to Selwyn in 1772 it is evident that Mie Mie, then about a year old, had been with him for some months, and in 1774 Lord Carlisle congratulates him upon the certainty of the child's remaining with him.