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Updated: June 5, 2025
"Well, let them think so." "They will not only think so, Sorella; they will say so, and make malicious comments." "What comments?" said Barbarina, raising herself up; "what comments, Marietta?" "It was indeed unfortunate that your sickness came upon you just as the king appeared," said Marietta. Barbarina's eyes flashed. "Do you think they will put those things together?" said she.
They stood silently, side by side, their eyes fixed upon each other, Frederick holding Barbarina's hand in his; they seemed to be whispering mysterious fairy tales to each other's hearts. "I see you, surrounded by smiling, sacred genii," at last, said Frederick. "These are the genii of the rosy hours which have been. Ah, Barbarina, thus attended, your face seems to me as the face of an angel.
They occupied the same expensive and beautiful hotel in Behren Street; but it was no longer surrounded by costly equipages, and besieged by gallant cavaliers. The elite of the court no longer came to wonder and to worship. Barbarina's house was lonely and deserted, and she herself was changed.
She comprehended the nobility and energy of Barbarina's nature; those bursts of tears were like clouds in the tropics; the storm must break, and then the sun would shine more gloriously. Marietta was right. In a short time her sister withdrew her hands from her face; her tears were quenched, and her eyes had their usual lustre. "I am mad," she cried, "worse than mad!
Barbarina's smile was a promise of love and bliss; and, when those great fiery eyes looked at you earnestly, there was such an intense glow, such a depth of power and passion in their rays, you could not but feel that there was danger in her love as in her scorn.
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