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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?
It was a cheque for one thousand guineas, drawn upon an English banker by the hand of Antonio-Pericles Agriolopoulos; freshly drawn; the ink was only half dried, showing signs of the dictates of a furious impulse. This dash of solid prose, and its convincing proof that her Art had been successful, restored Vittoria's composure, though not her early statuesque simplicity.
The Signor Antonio-Pericles has gold ears for everything that concerns the signorina. "A patriot is she!" he says; and he is jealous of your English friends. He thinks they will distract you from your studies; and perhaps" Luigi nodded sagaciously before he permitted himself to say "perhaps he is jealous in another way. I have heard him speak like a sonnet of the signorina's beauty.
Lieutenant Pierson, the officer in question, had ridden into the city once from Verona, and had called upon Antonio-Pericles to extract her address from him; the Greek had denied that she was in Milan. Luigi could tell no more.
Many of the aristocracy would, doubtless, have preferred that this public declaration of the plain enigma should not have rung forth to carry them on the popular current; and some might have sympathized with the insane grin which distorted the features of Antonio-Pericles, when he beheld illusion wantonly destroyed, and the opera reduced to be a mere vehicle for a fulmination of politics.
Luigi acted the caution of one who stepped blindfolded across hot iron plates. Vittoria, without a spark of interest, asked why the Signor Antonio should be following the army. "Why, it's to find you, signorina." Luigi's comical emphasis conjured up in a jumbled picture the devotion, the fury, the zeal, the terror of Antonio-Pericles a mixture of demoniacal energy and ludicrous trepidation.
Luigi came to, her, ruefully announcing that the volunteers had sacked the carriage behaved worse than the Austrians; and that his padrone, the signor Antonio-Pericles, was off like a gossamer. Angelo induced her to remain on the spot where she stood till the carriage was seen on the Schio road, when he led her to it, saying that Carlo had serious work to do.
'Aha! was his commencement of a greeting; 'was Antonio-Pericles wrong when he told you that he had a prima donna for you to amaze all Christendom, and whose notes were safe and firm as the footing of the angels up and down Jacob's ladder, my friends? Aha! 'Do you see that your uncle is signalling to you? Countess Lena said to Wilfrid.
The Signor Antonio-Pericles watches you, and he is a friend of the Government, and the Government is snoring for you to think it asleep. The Signor Antonio-Pericles pacifies the Tedeschi, but he will know all that you are doing, and how easy it will be, and how simple, for you to let me know what you think he ought to know, and just enough to keep him comfortable!
Look out for yourself, my child. If you take to plotting, remember it is a game of two." "If she thwarts me in one single step, I will let loose that madman on her," said Irma, trembling. "You mean the signor Antonio-Pericles?" "No; I mean that furious man I saw at your villa, dear countess." "Ah! Barto Rizzo. A very furious man. He bellowed when he heard her name, I remember. You must not do it.
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