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After an early breakfast Cleofonte and Luigi retired to the dressing tent, emerging after a while in gorgeous costumes of pink fleshings and spangles, their hair well greased with pomatum, their mustachios elaborately curled. The Signora and Stella soon followed, their hair wreathed in tight braids around their heads.
"I am no swashbuckler, yet I have met steel with steel and methinks I had rather face your kinsmen's swords than your cruel tongue, lady. Why do you use me so?" "Gerar-do, for no good reason, but because I am wayward, and shrewish, and curst, and because everybody admires me but you." "I admire you too, Signora.
"Gone, signora; and, in leaving, he desired me to say to you that he hoped you would forgive all the unhappiness he had caused you since your marriage." "Gone! Gone! Am I then free?" cried Lucretia, starting from her ottoman, and grasping the hand of the marquis. "Yes, signora. You are free to bestow your heart on whomsoever you will. Count Canossa will never molest you more."
Annunziata sank into the chair offered her, covering her face with her thin hands. "Alas! signora," she replied, faintly, "I have walked many weary miles and have not tasted a morsel of food since dawn!" "Take the poor child to the refectory," said the Countess to the Sister, who had remained standing near the door. "After her hunger has been appeased, I will see her again and question her."
Scarce knowing whom to address in such an assemblage, Ursula was relieved from her perplexity by an officer attired in a suit of crimson and gold, who, with a grave and formal decorum, which indeed reigned throughout the whole retinue, demanded, respectfully, whom she sought? "The Signora Nina!" replied Ursula, drawing up her stately person, with a natural, though somewhat antiquated, dignity.
Emily enquired what had occurred, and whither they were to go? 'I cannot stay to tell you now, Signora, replied Ludovico: 'fly! fly! She immediately followed him, accompanied by Mons. Du Pont, down the stair-case, and along a vaulted passage, when suddenly she recollected Annette, and enquired for her.
And the reason of this is that the naughty desires sensualists entertain, being directed towards others rather than to themselves, do still show some degraded traces of true love and gentle charity. But nothing of the kind was to be seen in the adulterous amours of the Signora Eletta, who in every passion loved herself and herself only.
"What for must he go to Capri, granny?" asked the child. "Have the people there no priest of their own, that they must borrow ours?" "Silly thing!" returned the granny. "Priests they have in plenty and the most beautiful of churches, and a hermit too, which is more than we have. But there lives a great signora, who once lived here; she was so very ill!
"If its owner has a name in Venice, he will not refuse hospitality to a daughter of Tiepolo." "Signora, you are welcome," returned the gentle girl, curtsying low, and still leading the way deeper within the vast edifice. "You bear the name of an illustrious house!"
How right is Signora Bertolini, who exclaimed to me the other day: 'Ho, Mr. Beebe, if you knew what I suffer over the children's edjucaishion. HI won't 'ave my little Victorier taught by a hignorant Italian what can't explain nothink!" Miss Alan did not follow, but gathered that she was being mocked in an agreeable way. Her sister was a little disappointed in Mr.
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