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"There is to be a grand ball at the casa of the Senor Leidesdorff," said Inez. "El Grande Commandante of the Yankee squadron comes amid great ceremony. I will gain his ear. Perchance he will undo the wrongs of this Bartlett, the despoiler." "Inez mia," said her brother, "do not go. No good will come of it. For they are all alike, these foreigners."
"Are you afraid to look at me, cara mia?" whispered Don Carlos, after a few minutes. "I want to look deep into your dear blue eyes and try to read what is in your heart." "I am afraid the result would be a shock to your overweening vanity, Don Carlos," responded Myra coldly, still avoiding his eyes.
Death had dropped like a sacred seal upon its memorable incidents, which all avoided; but mother and child seemed hourly to cling more closely to each other. To-day sitting on a low ottoman, with her arm thrown across her mother's knee, while the white hand wearing the black agate wandered now and then over her drooping head, Regina read the "Madonna Mia."
That young fellow, the Marchese Ludovico, does not look to me a likely sort of man to stand by quietly and see himself cut out of houses and lands! And besides, it strikes me " "Speak out your thought, bambina mia; I am sure it is one worth hearing. And between us, you know "
Stefano! I could only mutter. "'Perhaps the Count has paid for some of them. He is very kind. "'To you, is he? "'Oh, yes, very kind. "'And you would live in his house afterwards? "'Not now, mia cara not now! "'No, by God you don't! said I in English. 'But you would have done so, eh? "'Of course. That was arranged. The Count is really very kind.
I was scarcely aware that I had been vociferating, "Vieni, Medea, mia dea," while the old lady bobbed about making up my fire. I stopped; a nice reputation I shall get! I thought, and all this will somehow get to Rome, and thence to Berlin. Sora Lodovica was leaning out of the window, pulling in the iron hook of the shrine-lamp which marks Sor Asdrubale's house. I ran to the window.
"He can't accuse you of encouraging him anyhow, Olga mia," he remarked. "If you keep it up at this pace, you'll soon choke him off." Olga's answer was to draw very close to him, and to utter a great sigh. "Wherefore?" whispered Nick. She was silent for a moment, then: "I sometimes wish you were the only man in the world, Nick," she said, with quivering emphasis. "Gracious heaven!" said Nick.
"My castle lacks nothing save a mistress, and all my heart is craving for you, its ideal mate. I love you, love you, love you, mia cara, with all the strength and passion of my being. Confess that you love me, darling, and say you will be mine."
No counterfeiting now. No pretences. The Senora Moreno's heart broke within her, when those words passed her lips to her adored Felipe. At the sight, Felipe flung himself on his knees before her; he kissed the aged hands as they lay trembling in her lap. "Mother mia," he cried, "you will break my heart if you speak like that! Oh, why, why do you command me to do what a man may not?
In the evening the Diana sailed, and I reached Sarawak about two o'clock in the morning. "I now return to my concerns. The Chinese hadji, whom I had protected, continued to reside with my servants, till one evening we were alarmed at an attempt to poison my interpreter, a native of the name of Mia.
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