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Updated: September 3, 2025
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.
All that the household knew was that Miss Alice Manisty had escaped from her room in the night, after pinioning Dalgetty's arms and throwing a chloroformed handkerchief over her face. Miss Foster, it seemed, had been aroused and alarmed, and Mr. Manisty coming to the rescue had overpowered his sister by the help of the stout cameriera, Andreina. This was all that was certainly known.
"I wish I were a man, Lucrezia," said Hermione, when the voices at length died away towards the sea. "Signora, we were made for the men. They weren't made for us. But I like being a girl." "To-night. I know why, Lucrezia." And then the padrona and the cameriera sat down together on the terrace under the stars, and talked together about the man the cameriera loved, and his exceeding glory.
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?
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.
She gazed at the forms that surrounded her bedside; at the priest, who, with folded hands, was praying at her head; at the cameriera, who knelt beside him; at the young girls, who, gathered in a lovely group at her feet, smiled and wept by turns as she looked upon them; and lastly, she felt a kiss upon her hand, and, looking there, she beheld her brother, who wept with joy.
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.
"She sleeps yet," said the cameriera; "but I MUST waken her," murmured she to herself, "it is my duty." She advanced, and drew aside the heavy folds of the pink silk curtains that hung around the bed. "Pardon me, your highness," she whispered; "but " She stopped; for, to her great surprise, the princess was awake.
The hand of the cameriera was laid upon her arm, and she whispered: "My child, be silent; you know not what you say." Isabella bowed her head, and then looking tenderly around at her kneeling companions, she said: "Rise and sit by me, my dear girls, and listen to what I am about to say, for we speak together for the last time on earth.
Slowly her looks turned upon her attendants, who, breathless and frightened, gazed upon the rosy pillow, and the pallid face that lay in its midst, dazzling their eyes with its whiteness. "Pardon me," again whispered the cameriera, "it is almost noonday." "What hour?" murmured the princess. "It is ten o'clock, your highness." The princess shivered, and exclaimed, "For three days, then!"
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