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So keen was the glad expression of her face, that Weisspriess looked up. 'Come, Angelo, come to me; she said confidently. Weisspriess plucked his sword out, and called to him imperiously to descend. Beckoned downward by white hand and flashing blade, Angelo steadied his feet and hands among drooping chestnut boughs, and bounded to Vittoria's side.

She loved her friend's worn eyelids and softly-shut mouth; the after-glow of battle seemed on them; the silence of the field of carnage under heaven; and the patient turning of Laura's eyes this way and that to speakers upon common things, covered the despair of her heart as with a soldier's cloak. Laura met the tender study of Vittoria's look, and smiled.

Carlo contained himself to answer, "The present occupant is, I believe, if I have hit the house I was seeking, the Countess d'Isorella." "My family were placed here, sir?" Count Lenkenstein inquired of Wilfrid. But Wilfrid's attention was frozen by the sight of Vittoria's lover. A wifely call of "Adalbert" from above quieted the count's anxiety. "Countess d'Isorella," he said. "I know that woman.

Meditating awhile, Barto wrote out Vittoria's name and enclosed it in a thick black ring. Beneath it he wrote 'The same on all the play-bills. 'The Fifteenth is cancelled. 'We meet the day after. 'At the house of Count M. to-night.

The next morning Wilfrid was roused by an orderly coming from his uncle, who placed in his hands a copy of Vittoria's letter: at the end of it his uncle had written, 'Rather astonishing. Done pretty well; but by a foreigner. "Affection" spelt with one "f." Who the deuce, sir, is this opera girl calling herself Vittoria? I have a lecture for you.

An hour after, by the light of this unlucky little speech, he thought of her as a shameless coquette. "When I need a refuge? Is not Milan in arms? Italy alive? She considers it all a passing epidemic; or, perhaps, she is to plead for me to the king!" That set him thinking moodily over the things she had uttered of Vittoria's strange and sudden devotion to the king.

But I, that was more in the way of girl-gossips than Dante, got in time to know the truth of the reason why the lady Beatrice had refused her salutation to my friend, and I began to see that Madonna Vittoria's counsel might well prove more mischievous than serviceable in the end.

This was an arrangement of their joint affairs which Messer Griffo of the Claw was very willing to make. I did not know all this as I stood there in the Place of the Holy Felicity, though I could guess at a good deal of it, for the tale of Griffo's love for Vittoria and of Vittoria's love for Griffo was written in the largest and plainest hand of write.

The signora loosened the pin from its hold; but dreading lest she thereby sacrificed some possible clue to the mystery, she hesitated in her action, and sent an intolerable shiver of spite through Vittoria's frame, at whom she gazed in a cold and cruel way, saying, 'Don't tremble. And again, 'Is it the doing of that 'garritrice magrezza, whom you call 'la Lazzeruola? Speak.

You have purposely barred the way to your fairy prince, and will continue sleeping." Vittoria's brow showed faint lines, but whether of pain or annoyance it was hard to tell. Oliveta sighed. "What evil fortune overhangs us that we should be denied love!" "Please! Let us speak no more of it." She turned her face away and for a long time her companion soothed her with silent ministrations.