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Updated: June 5, 2025
Valdarno had been in the club-box, and had seen Giovanni when he made his visit to the Astrardente; he had not seen him again till the Frangipani ball. "Well, as I was saying, we spoke of Giovanni, and every one had something to say about his absence.
"In that case," said Corona, "the only way to improve their condition is to give them work in the winter. I will make roads through the estate, and build large dwelling-houses in the town. There shall be work enough for everybody." It was a simple plan, but it was destined to be carried into execution, and to change the face of the Astrardente domain in a few years.
"Ah!" exclaimed old Astrardente, "I envy them that invention, my dear; it is perfectly magnificent. You must have a tiger to take home. How fortunate we were to be in time!" He forced his way into the crowd, leaving his wife alone for a moment by the door; and he managed to catch Valdarno, who was distributing the little emblems to right and left.
Astrardente had once offered to give her an allowance, and had seemed pleased that she refused it. He liked to manage things himself, being a man of detail. And now she was enormously rich, and alone. It was a strange sensation. She felt it to be so new that she innocently said so to the lawyer. "What shall I do with it all?"
"Gowns, my dear," he continued, "make a profound impression upon men's minds." "For the matter of that," said the Duchessa, "I do not care to impress men at all nor women either." She spoke lightly, pleased that the conversation should have taken a more pleasant turn. "Not even to impress me, my dear?" asked old Astrardente, with a leer. "That is different," answered Corona, quietly.
He was engaged to dance with me the last waltz but one before the cotillon. He forgot me, and I found him with that with a lady talking quietly." "With whom did you say?" asked Saracinesca, very gravely. "With the Astrardente if you will know," returned Donna Tullia, her anger at the memory of the insult bringing the blood suddenly to her face.
Your best course is to meet the Astrardente to-morrow at the appointed time, and simply present these papers for inspection. No one can deny their authenticity, for they bear the Government stamp and the notary's seal, as you see, here and here.
There can be little happiness when a whole life has been placed upon a false foundation, even though so dire a mistake may have been committed willingly and from a sense of duty and obligation, such as drove Corona to marry old Astrardente.
"True?" cried Astrardente, who would not brook interruption. "It is all true and more also. It is true that he loves you, true that all the world says it, true by all that is holy, from your face I would almost believe that you do love him! Why do you not deny it? Miserable woman!" he screamed, springing towards her and seizing her roughly by the arm, as she hid her face in her hands.
But at a turn of the grade the two riders suddenly slipped from his field of vision, and his attention was attracted to the marvellous beauty of the landscape, as looking down the valley towards Astrardente he saw range on range of purple hills rising in a deep perspective, crowned with jagged rocks or sharply defined brown villages, ruddy in the lowering sun.
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