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Updated: June 23, 2025
"Does a Principe Minotti" he pronounced the word "Principe" with a sneering curl of the lips "dare to criticize a Carpazzi?" He threw back his head with a jerk. "What is he?" whispered Nina to Tornik, who was sitting next her. "Is he a duke?" "A Don, that is all, I believe." Softly as the question was put and answered, Carpazzi heard.
He talked of many things and finally of Cecelia Potenzi. That he should have spoken the name of the girl he loved was quite foreign to his, or in fact to any, Italian nature. But by now Nina had become thoroughly interested in what he was telling her and her sympathetic eyes had a way of urging confidences, and besides, as Carpazzi knew, she was very fond of Cecelia.
Don Cesare's expression was for the moment transfigured; instead of arrogance, it suggested rather humility; both he and the young girl seemed deeply engrossed. Tornik told Nina that she was Donna Cecilia Potensi, the little sister-in-law of the contessa in the box opposite. He also added that Carpazzi was supposed to be in love with her, and she with him, but they had not a lira to marry on.
Nina would have thought Lady Dorothy an impossible person were it not for the "Lady" which, as Carpazzi put it, "was pushed before the name." In the meanwhile Lady Dorothy went off into a long disquisition upon the advisability of having couches at formal banquets as in the old Roman days.
He was merely aware that Giovanni's manner proclaimed opposition, so, when the sound of his voice ceased, Sansevero continued: "Nina is all the most fastidious could ask. Noblesse oblige are you going to keep our name among the greatest in Rome, or are you going to let it fall like that of the Carpazzi?
My husband told me that the Carpazzi were of the genuine optimates of the Roman Duchy." "I think Cesare regrets in his heart," said the Princess Sansevero, "that his ancestors did not accept one, but I agree with him now." She stirred her coffee slowly and then added, "I am fond of the boy, but I do not think I shall have him to dinner soon again. He is too uncontrolled." The contessa agreed.
To Nina's delight, he actually got Carpazzi to accept the position of Tiggs, who had to return to America. The plant, once started, no longer needed both engineers. And Carpazzi's tumble-down castle not far from Vencata, enabled him to go without hurt to his European ideas of dignity to "look after his own property." In spite of her explanations, John was very much worried about Nina.
"You know whereof I speak, Alessandro and Giovanni not even the Sansevero have the lineage of the Carpazzi!" "Certainly, certainly, my friend," answered Giovanni. "No one is disputing the fact with you."
Her Majesty was talking to the Marchesa Valdeste. Of all the older ladies to whom she had been presented, Nina liked the marchesa best. Her face had the sweet expression that can come only from genuine kindness and innate dignity. At a short distance from the royal box Don Cesare Carpazzi was talking to a young girl.
A duke or a prince may be a parvenu. For me to accept a title Non! It would mean that the name of Carpazzi," he lingered on the pronunciation "could be improved! The name of Minotti, for instance, what does it say? Nothing! It is the name of a peasant. It may be dressed up to masquerade as noble, if it has 'Principe' pushed along before it. But it could not deceive a Roman.
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