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It was the judgment of the head-waiters and other functionaries on the Italian lakes that approved itself now as interested; they themselves had been conscious of impatiences, of bolder dreams at least the younger had; so that one of the things they made out together making out as they did an endless variety was that in those operatic palaces of the Villa d'Este, of Cadenabbia, of Pallanza and Stresa, lone women, however reinforced by a travelling-library of instructive volumes, were apt to be beguiled and undone.
He gave her hints of his foolish pique, his wrath and bitter baffled desire for her when, coming to Pallanza, he came to an empty house. But he could not help her to see, for he did not himself feel, that he had been spurred by silly passions, pique, and wrath, to plunge instantly into new political intrigue; and that some of his worst faults had become mixed up with his devotion to his country.
A new husband? I must be dragged through the Circles of Dante before I can conceive it, and then I should loathe the stranger." News came that the volunteers were crushed. It was time for Vittoria to start for Pallanza, and she thought of her leave-taking; a final leave-taking, in one sense, to the friends who had cared too much for her.
"Oh, soon! or I feel that I shall hate any vestige of will that I have in this head of mine. Not in the heart it is not there! "And sometimes I am burning to sing. The voice leaps to my lips; it is quite like a thing that lives apart my prisoner. "It is true, Laura is here with Merthyr. "Could you come at once? not here, but to Pallanza? We shall both make our mother happy.
"See my last signature of not Vittoria; for I may sign that again and still be Emilia Alessandra Ammiani. The letter was sealed; Luigi bore it away, and a brief letter to Countess Ammiani, in Pallanza, as well.
True; still she should have remembered her promise in the Vicentino. She did indeed; but how could she quit her wounded friend Merthyr? Perhaps not: then, why had she sent word to him from Milan that she would be at Pallanza? This question knocked at a sealed chamber. She was silent, and Carlo had to brood over something as well.
Here, at Pallanza, in a garden overhanging the Lago Maggiore where the Borromean Isles sleep in their swan-like beauty on the blue-green waves, they faced the question of turning homeward or going on to the south for a winter tour.
I dare say you have guessed that I have a new journal in my head: the Pallanza Iris is to be the name of it; to be printed in three colours, to advocate three principles, in three styles. The Legitimists, the Moderates, and the Republicans are to proclaim themselves in its columns in prose, poetry, and hotch-potch. Once an editor, always an editor.
You have stopped at Pallanza Garoni's is so comfortable. Well, then, you know how every Alpine stream, as it flows, full-gorged, into the Italian lakes, is busily engaged in filling them up as fast as ever it can with turbid mud from the uplands.
My luck was not so good, or you wouldn't see me still alive, my dear." Vittoria sighed for a plainer speaker. Carlo's hours were passed chiefly across the lake, in the Piedmontese valleys. When at Pallanza he was restless, and he shunned the two or three minutes of privacy with his betrothed which the rigorous Italian laws besetting courtship might have allowed him to take.
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