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"Not," he resumed, taking jealousy to counsel, now that he had advanced a step: "Not that I would detain you against your will! I can't expect to make such a figure at the end of the piece as your Count Branciani who, by the way, served his friends oddly, however well he may have served his country." "His friends?" She frowned. "Did he not betray the conspirators?
"Well, you look like Countess Branciani when, after thinking her husband the basest of men, she discovered him to be the noblest." Emilia blushed. "That's not easily forgotten! But she must have looked braver, bolder, not so under a burden as I feel." "The comparison was meant to suit the moment of your reciting."
He entreated her to. Thereat she pulled gently for her hand, and persisting, it was grudgingly let go. "One night Countess Branciani put the Austrians on her husband's track. He knew that she was true to her country, and had no fear of her, whether she touched the Black-yellow gold or not. But he did not confide any, of his projects to her.
Count Branciani was to find out who was this unknown leader. He said to the Austrian Governor, 'You shall know him in ten days. This was repeated to Countess Branciani, and she said to herself, 'My husband! you shall perish, though I should have to stab you myself." Emilia's sympathetic hand twitched. Wilfrid's seized it, but it proved no soft melting prize. She begged to be allowed to continue.
'Remember Broncini and young Branciani! Angelo spoke no other words throughout the combat. Weisspriess threw himself forward on a feeble lunge of his sword, and let the point sink in the ground, as a palsied cripple supports his frame, swayed, and called to Angelo to come on, and try another stroke, another one more! He fell in a lump: his look of amazement was surmounted by a strong frown.
"Well, you look like Countess Branciani when, after thinking her husband the basest of men, she discovered him to be the noblest." Emilia blushed. "That's not easily forgotten! But she must have looked braver, bolder, not so under a burden as I feel." "The comparison was meant to suit the moment of your reciting."
"Countess Branciani made the Austrian Governor her slave," she uttered, planting one foot upon a stool to lend herself height. "He told her who were suspected, and who would be imprisoned, and gave her all the State secrets. Beauty can do more than music. I wonder whether Merthyr loved her? He loves me!" Emilia was smitten with a fear that he would speak of it when she next saw him. "Oh!
'Remember Broncini and young Branciani! Angelo spoke no other words throughout the combat. Weisspriess threw himself forward on a feeble lunge of his sword, and let the point sink in the ground, as a palsied cripple supports his frame, swayed, and called to Angelo to come on, and try another stroke, another one more! He fell in a lump: his look of amazement was surmounted by a strong frown.
The commonplaces concerning father, sisters, health, weather, sickened him when uttered, so much that for a time he was unobservant of Emilia's ready exchange of them. To a compliment on her appearance, she said: "You like this dress? I will tell you the history of it. I call it the Branciani dress. Mr. Powys designed it for me. The Countess Branciani was his friend.
"She," pursued Emilia, "she loved him still, I believe, but her country was her religion. There was known to be a great conspiracy, and no one knew the leader of it. All true Italians trusted Countess Branciani, though she visited the Austrian Governor's house a General with some name on the teeth.
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