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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.
The Signor Antonio-Pericles thinks that you have come here to-day to meet them. When he heard that you were going to leave Milan for Baveno, he was mad, and with two fists up, against all English persons. The Englishman who is an Austrian officer is quartered at Verona, and the Signor Antonio Pericles said that the Englishman should not meet you yet, if he could help it." Victoria stood brooding.
The duo tasked Vittoria's execution of florid passages; it gave evidence of her sound artistic powers. 'I was a fool, thought Antonio-Pericles; 'I flung my bouquet with the herd. I was a fool! I lost my head! He tapped angrily at the little ink-flask in his coat-pocket.
Having thus delivered himself of the effervescence of his internal agitation, he turned sharply round upon Luigi, with a military stamp of the foot and shout of the man's name. 'It is love she wants, Antonio-Pericles resumed his savage soliloquy. 'She wants to be kindled on fire. Too much Government of brain; not sufficient Insurrection of heart! There it is. There it lies.
"Gifted by nature, I can acknowledge," said Irma; "but devoured by vanity a perfect slave to the appetite for praise; ready to forfeit anything for flattery! Poor signor Antonio-Pericles! he knows her." And now Count Ammiani, persuaded to reason by his mother, had given her up. There was nothing more positive, for Irma had seen him in the society of Countess Violetta d'Isorella.
Carlo Ammiani's letter was handed to Vittoria at the fall of the curtain on the last night. Three paths were open to her: either that she should obey her lover, or earn an immense sum of money from Antonio-Pericles by accepting an immediate engagement in London, or go to the war. To sit in submissive obedience seemed unreasonable; to fly from Italy impossible.
"Angelo is here, and so is our Agostino; and I assure you he loads and fires a carbine much more deliberately than he composes a sonnet. I am afraid that your adored Antonio-Pericles fared badly among our fellows, but I could gather no particulars. "Oh! the bright two minutes when I held you right in my heart. That spot on the Vicentino is alone unclouded. If I live I will have that bit of ground.
Herr Johannes desired her to recall to mind his introduction to her by the Signor Antonio-Pericles at the house of the maestro Rocco Ricci. 'It is true; pardon me, said Vittoria. He informed her that she had surpassed herself at the opera; so much so that he and many other Germans had been completely conquered by her.
The tender-hearted duchess sent a message to Vittoria, bidding her not to forget that she had promised her at Meran to 'love her always. "And tell her," she said to Merthyr, "that I do not think I shall have my rooms open for the concert to-morrow night. I prefer to let Antonio-Pericles go mad. She will not surely consider that she is bound by her promise to him?
Their notes fell flat as bullets against a wall. This circumstance aroused the ire of Antonio-Pericles against the libretto and revolutionists. 'I perceive, he said, grinning savagely, 'it has come to be a concert, not an opera; it is a musical harangue in the marketplace. Illusion goes: it is politics here!
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