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"Madam," I said, "my intrusion is pure accident. I was told that your ladyship was in the house. Ten thousand pardons that I come unannounced before you unwelcome I must needs be, unworthy of your clemency since we parted unhappily. Forgive me, I beseech you." I then offered the count my hand. "Oh, Signor Francesco," says Aurelia in a twitter, "I am glad to see you again."
"For demure as you are, Miss Aura, I fancy you looked a little above the diamond shoe-buckles!" "Fie, Harriet!" exclaimed Betty; "I will not have the child tormented. He ought to come and pay his respects to my father." "Have you ever seen my Lady?" asked Aurelia.
This was what the Baroness said to Aurelia, and then she became more kind and friendly, and Aurelia, no longer distressed by the presence of the horrible man, and having given up the idea of escaping, was allowed a little more freedom. Some time had elapsed, when one day, as Aurelia was sitting alone in her room, she heard a great clamour approaching in the street.
She spoke in anger, and hazarded an accusation as angry ladies are wont. 'Of course you say so, returned Aurelia. 'I will believe you if you give me back the paper I signed, and trust to my word for the fulfilment of what I promised. Leander smiled, almost as if he had heard some happy intelligence. 'You ask, he said, 'for a trust you yourself refuse.
"I rather thought you were inclined for a nap when I left you," replied Charles, airily; "and now let us go to luncheon." It was a very dismal meal. Lady Mary did not come down to it, and Aurelia sat with red eyes, tearful and silent. Ralph was evidently out of favor, for she hardly spoke to him, and snubbed him decidedly when he humbly tendered a peace-offering in the form of a potato.
I do not mean that they resembled each other in the least, for one was dark and one was fair; but which was Miss Aurelia Grant, Ralph's fiancée, and which was Miss Evelyn Derrick, a cousin of the family, I could not make out until later in the evening, when I distinctly saw Ralph kiss the fair one in the picture-gallery, and I instantly came to the conclusion that she was the one to whom he was engaged.
I sat by her side in the little saloon which had been Donna Giulia's boudoir, and served Aurelia now for the same purpose; and judging honesty the kindest, and only, course, I told her everything of my defence of Virginia, hinting at the same time at my suspicions of Count Giraldi.
The fact that the dedication alone is wanting, for so Niebuhr appears to mean, shows that the Life is not incomplete, and there is no reason for thinking that it is. C. Julius Cæsar, the son of C. Julius Cæsar and Aurelia, was born on the twelfth of July, B.C. 100, in the sixth consulship of his uncle C. Marius. But it is easier to make such charges than to confute them.
My heart is bursting with a thousand fond thoughts and presages. You shall see that dire paper which has been the source of all my woes it is the constant companion of my travels last night I nourished my chagrin with the perusal of its horrid contents." Aurelia expressed great impatience to view the cruel forgery, for such she assured him it must be.
All were eager to see whether the daughter of Maximus would be present, for many rumours were rife touching Aurelia, some declaring that she had returned to the true faith, some that she remained obstinate in heresy. Her failure to appear did not set the debate at rest.
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