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Accordingly, in his deepest nasal intonation, and withdrawing his eyes from the ceiling, he began: "You have not asked, sir, after the signorina, or as we popularly call her, Mademoiselle Cicogna?" "Have I not? I hope she is quite well, and her lively companion, Signora Venosta." "They are not sick, sir; or at least they were not so last night when my wife and I had the pleasure to see them.
They said her manners were very haughty, her temper very violent; that she led the Inglese a very unhappy life; that there were a girl and a boy, both hers by a former marriage; but when closely questioned whether they were sure that the girl was the Signora's child by the former husband, or whether she was not the child of that husband by a former wife, they could not tell; they could only say that both were called by the same name Cicogna; that the boy was the Signora's favourite that indeed she seemed wrapt up in him; that he died of a rapid decline a few months after Mr.
If I say to him, 'It will be long before you can go out and see your friends, but at my house your friends shall come and see you among them Signora Venosta and Mademoiselle Cicogna will now and then drop in' my victory is gained, and my son is saved." "Madame," said Isaura, half sobbing, "what a blessing to have a mother like you! Love so noble ennobles those who hear its voice.
The letter then went on: "While thus kindly treated by the family with whom nominally a governess, I was on the terms of a friend with Signor Ludovico Cicogna, an Italian of noble birth. He was the only man I ever cared for. I loved him with frail human passion. I could not tell him, my true history.
It was said that the Prince X boasted that before a week was out Mademoiselle Cicogna should appear in his carriage at the Bois de Boulogne, and wear at the opera diamonds he had sent to her; that this boast was enforced by a wager, and the terms of the wager compelled the Prince to confess the means he had taken to succeed, and produce the evidence that he had lost or won.
The Morleys stopped to accost Graham, but the lady had scarcely said three words to him, before, catching sight of the haunting face, she darted towards it. Her husband, less emotional, bowed at the distance, and said, "To my taste, sir, the Signorina Cicogna is the loveliest girl in the present bee,* and full of mind, sir."
Every child that has just learned to speak uses bolder expressions than its grandmamma; but I am rather at a loss to know by what novelty of phrase an American would have answered your question." "An American would have discovered that Isaura Cicogna had a soul, and his answer would have confessed it." "It strikes me that he would then have uttered a platitude more stolid than mine.
"You mean Mademoiselle Cicogna and the news that demands congratulations her approaching marriage!" "Mon Dieu! when could you have heard of that?" "Last night at the house of M. Duplessis." "Parbleu! I shall scold her well for confiding to her new friend Valerie the secret she kept from her old friends, my wife and myself."
But a man solemnly betrothed to a mademoiselle like the Signora Cicogna, in a time of such dire calamity and peril, could scarcely allow himself to be tempted to accept the invitation of one so beautiful, and so warmly attached to him, as is Mademoiselle Julie; and on witnessing the passionate strength of that attachment, say that he cannot keep a promise not to repeat his visits.
Selby was a learned antiquarian, an accomplished general scholar, a fanatico in music, a man of gentle temper though reserved manners; had at one time lived much at Venice: after his marriage with the Signora Cicogna he had taken up his abode near Florence. To Florence Graham now went. He found the villa on the skirts of Fiesole at which Mr. Selby had resided.
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