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Updated: May 12, 2025
But there had been, notwithstanding the high presumption of his remark, a manful thickness of voice in Alvan's 'That is he! The rivals had fastened a look on one another, wary, strong, and summary as the wrestlers' first grapple. In fire of gaze, Marko was not outdone. 'He does not count? With those eyes of his? Alvan exclaimed.
They looked at it as having seen it before, and passed on. 'But the wife of Sigismund Alvan will not be poor in renown! he resumed, radiating his full bloom on her. 'My highest ambition is to be Sigismund Alvan's wife! she exclaimed. To hear her was as good as wine, and his heart came out on a genial chuckle. 'Ay, the choice you have made is not, by heaven, so bad.
She had ceased to weep; she had outwept the colour of her eyes and the consolation of weeping. Dressed in black to the throat, she sat and waited the arrival of her phantom friend, the baroness that angel! who proved her goodness in consenting to be the friend of Alvan's beloved, because she was the true friend of Alvan! How cheap such a way of proving goodness, Clotilde did not consider.
She had not ever thought of him coldly: hitherto it would have seemed a sacrilege; but now she said definitely, the friend of Tresten cannot be the man I supposed him! and she ascribed her capacity for saying it, and for perceiving and adding up Alvan's faults of character, to the freezing she had taken from that most antipathetic person.
Out of the house would then signify assuredly to Alvan's arms. The prospect might have seemed too heavenly to be realizable had she not been sensible of paying heavily for it; and thus, as he would wish to be, was Marko of double service to her; for she was truly fond of the beautiful and chivalrous youth, and far from wishing to lose him.
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