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Scott is the prettier!" When he felt Bettina's little hand slip into his arm, and when she turned toward him her delicious face, he said: "Miss Percival is the prettier!" But his perplexities gathered round him again when he was seated between the two sisters.
G. von Löper has well said of her composite traits: "The tender radiance of first youth hovers over her descriptions; but, while one is beholding, Bettina suddenly changes into a mischievous elf, and, if we reach out to grasp the kobold, lo! a sibyl stands before us!" Behind all Bettina's mobility there is a force of individuality, as irresistible and as recurrent as the tides.
I also suggested that we meet in Bettina's parlor, where Frances's letter could be rewritten in cipher. We trusted Bettina as we trusted ourselves, and when we told her the good news, she clapped her hands for joy, laughing, yet ready to weep, and was as happy as even she could be, which was very happy indeed.
To Lord Hurdly it gave an insight into Bettina's nature which he had not had before. He found her to be possessed of a power of caustic speech which, he was bound to acknowledge, had made him feel uncomfortable. He felt also that he had not succeeded in asserting his supremacy over her quite so conclusively as he could have wished.
It would not be so dull hereafter. "You may go. Perhaps," and Bettina's mistress smiled, "perhaps I may let you read it and answer it, after I am done with it. That would be rather neat." "But it will be in English, signora; and that I can not read." Bettina's eyes filled with disappointment. "You may use it as a lesson. In a few days you should be able to master it."
In one respect, indeed, Bettina's vogue in America remained for the rest of her lifetime more secure than in her own country, where the publication of her later politico-sociological works, Dies Buch gehört dem König and Gespräche mit Dämonen , was followed by a temporary eclipse of her popularity, and where also her fate, in persistently associating her with Rahel, the wife of Varnhagen, as a foil for Rahel's brilliant but transitory glitter, had tarnished her own fame.
In the evening when I came down to supper I found that Bettina's bed had been brought to the kitchen close by her mother's; but it was no concern of mine, and I remained likewise perfectly indifferent to the noise made during the night, and to the confusion which took place in the morning, when she had a fresh fit of convulsions. Doctor Gozzi and his father returned in the evening.
Hillard asked pleasantly. "She is not in the Campo Formosa, signore." Bettina, recovering her scattered wits, laughed. "But you were last night." "Yes. I watched you and your friend for some time." Bettina's eyes were merry. She would play with him. Everything was so tedious now. "Your mistress is in Venice." "Perhaps. At least her maid is." "I should not dare suggest a bribe," he said slyly.
It seems a brutal thing to say, but if you believe that that hotheaded, undisciplined boy is capable of a sustained affection against such odds of fortune as this case presents, then I disagree with you, and I know him better than you do." Bettina's face flushed. "He does love me he does!" she cried, in some agitation.
And if what he had done did not concur with the elements of high finance, he would like Mr. Stokes Bettina's father to tell him what it did concur with. Now, there was the whole story from its incipiency. And as conclusive proof that he did not mean to profit by the deal financially, would Mr. Stokes kindly examine those papers? Mr.
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