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The maidens arose, and obeyed, while Isabella leaned her head for a few moments upon the bosom of her mother's friend, the cameriera. There was a pause, during which the poor girl seemed to have received some comfort in those friendly arms; for she finally sighed, and, raising her head again, she spoke solemnly, but not unnaturally. "I had last night a singular vision," she said.
At last the task was at an end, and the cameriera coming toward her, offered the cup of chocolate which she was accustomed to drink at that hour. Tenderly she besought the unhappy girl to partake of it, but Isabella waved away the cup, saying: "Dear friend, offer me no earthly food. I pine for the banquet of angels. Let the chaplain be called to bring the viaticum.
The young girl returned in a few moments with an answer. His royal highness had that morning gone some distance in the country on a hunting excursion, and would be absent for several days. Isabella looked at the cameriera, who still stood beside her, and her pale lips quivered. "Did I not know it?" whispered she; "I told you truly, HE did it! God forgive him, I cannot.
The Princess Isabella slept unusually late the next morning. Her little bell, that summoned the ladies of honor, had not yet rung, and the day was far advanced. The first cameriera seemed troubled, and whispered her apprehensions that the princess was sick; for she had observed, for some days, she said, that her highness had looked pale.
I wish to receive the last sacraments of the dying." A cry of horror burst from the lips of the maids of honor. "The chaplain! The last sacraments! For you, my beloved child?" asked the sobbing cameriera. "For me," replied Isabella. "Heavenly Father!" exclaimed the aja. "Have you then presumed to anticipate the will of God, and to go before His presence, uncalled?"
Denise, the cameriera, noticed the light in the room, entered, and after vainly endeavoring to rouse Henrica, called her mistress. The latter followed the maid, muttering as she ascended the stairs: "Fallen asleep, found the time hang heavy that's all! She might have been lively and laughed with us! Stupid race! 'Men of butter, King Philip says.
To the cameriera she gave a sealed packet, and then bade them leave her to herself; for the ringing of the chapel bell announced the departure of the priest thence, with the blessed sacrament. The sacred rites were ended. On her knees the Princess Isabella had made her confession, and had revealed to the shuddering priest the horrible secrets of the preceding night.
She was always beautiful as a rose and, as her mother's old cameriera she was a native of Lugano had brought her up, and the priest who taught her came from Pisa and was acknowledged to be an excellent musician, she spoke my language like a child of Tuscany and was perfectly familiar with music.
If I can only read and write, I can earn twice as much as I otherwise could. Then I can be a cameriera, and bring my mistress a written account of expenditure every week." Filomena knows that Saredo is a professor at the University. But she does not know what a professor or a University is. She puts her question like this: "Probably my idea of what a university is, may not be quite correct?"
Always in a tumult; always like a loaded pistol, and these terrible headaches too! She was different when she came here." "Is she ill?" "My mistress won't see it," replied the servant. "But what the cameriera and I see, we see. Now red now pale, no rest at night, at table she scarcely eats a chicken-wing and a leaf of salad." "Does the doctor share your anxiety?" "The doctor?
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