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Antonio-Pericles, and the English lady and Captain Gambier, were next to them. The appearance of a white uniform in his mother's box over the stage caused Ammiani to shut up his glass. He was making his way thither for the purpose of commencing the hostilities of the night, when Countess Ammiani entered the lobby, and took her son's arm with a grave face and a trembling touch.
Luigi considered that, having lately been believed in, he could not afford to look untruthful, and replied with a sprightly "Assuredly." "He was there, and he read the writing on the paper?" "Assuredly: right out loud, between puff-puff of his cigar." "His name is Lieutenant Pierson. Did not Antonio-Pericles tell you his name?
"Indeed, signorina, I am a sort of guardian of your voice. It is not gold of the Tedeschi I get from the Signor Antonio Pericles." At the mention of this name, Agostino and Vittoria laughed out. "You are in the pay of the Signor Antonio-Pericles," said Agostino. "Without being in our pay, you have done us the service to come up here among us! Bravo!
'Von Lenkenstein; but I choose to be further deaf. 'To the devil, sir. Do you pretend to be angry? cried Weisspriess. 'The devil, sir, with your recommendation, is too black for me to visit him, Antonio-Pericles rejoined. 'By heaven, Pericles, for less than what you allow yourself to say, I've sent men to him howling! They faced one another, pulling at their moustachios. Weisspriess laughed.
But who is the damned creature? I must coo and kiss, while my toes are dancing on hot plates, to find her out. Who is she? If she were half Milan . . ." His hands waved in outline the remainder of the speech, and he rose, but sat again. He had caught sight of the spy, Luigi Saracco, addressing the signor Antonio-Pericles in his carriage. Pericles drove on.
The watch-fires of Austrians encamped in the fields encircled her; and moving up and down, the cigar of Antonio-Pericles was visible. He had not eaten or drunk, and he was out there sleepless; he walked conquering his fears in the thick of war troubles: all for her sake. She watched critically to see whether the cigar-light was puffed in fretfulness.
He 's on the Marshal's staff. He 's engaged to the Countess Lena von Lenkenstein. She has fire enough, my Pericles. 'The Countess Anna, you say? The Greek stretched forward his ear, and was never so near getting it vigorously cuffed. 'Deafness is an unpardonable offence, my dear Pericles. Antonio-Pericles sniffed, and assented, 'It is the stupidity of the ear. 'I said, the Countess Lena.
Antonio-Pericles waved his arm between the two young men. Their plain perplexity caused him to dash his fingers down each side of his moustachios in tugs of enjoyment. For Lieutenant Pierson, who displayed a certain readiness to bow, had caught a sight of the repellent stare on Ammiani's face; a still and flat look, not aggressive, yet anything but inviting; like a shield.
But make a fiasco, Luigi, and not a second ten for you, my friend: and away, out of my sight, show yourself no more! Luigi humbly said that he was not the instrument of a fiasco. Half spurning him, Antonio-Pericles snarled an end both to his advices and his prophetic disgust of the miserable tools furnished unto masterly minds upon this earth.
I give a chance to some one else who is not a patriot. He has done mischief with the inflammable little Anna von Lenkenstein I know it. Your proper lovers, you women, are the broad, the business lovers, and Weisspriess is your man. Antonio-Pericles glanced up at the maestro's windows. 'Hark! it is her voice, he said, and drew up his clenched fists with rage, as if pumping. 'Cold as ice!
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