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"You excite yourself needlessly, Contessa," he said. "He has done nothing to me personally, he is simply in my way. That is his sole offence! And whatever is in my way, I remove! Nothing is easier than to remove Cardinal Bonpre, for he has, by his very simplicity, fallen into a trap from which extrication will be difficult.
"She had been detained," she said, "by the Contessa Maraviglia for the letter which she brought back to Mr. Mole." The letter was an invitation to a grand ball which was to be given by the contessa at the Palazzo Maraviglia, and to which the Harkaways were going. Dick Harvey had been at work in this business, and had made the contessa believe indirectly that Mr.
But when she became seventeen it was judged expedient to change this lady for another. A different sort of person was required. Custom and the habits of life and convenience of the Marchesa made it expedient that a duenna should be provided to attend on the young Contessa; but she was supposed no longer to need an instructress.
"Yes, Aunt Randolph, if you mean the Contessa," said Lucy. "And that she intends to make a bold coup to get the girl off her hands. These sort of people so often succeed: I shouldn't wonder if she were to succeed. I always said the girl would be handsome, but I think she might have waited another year."
He had deemed it wise to pretend assent when the Contessa had urged him to join Marcello at once, but he had not had the least intention of doing so, and had come back to Paris as soon as he was sure that the Contessa was gone. But he had made a mistake in his calculations.
"Shall we see you at Lady Blank Blank's to-night? You must be going to the Duchess's? Of course we shall meet at the Highton Grandmodes!" "Ah!" cried the Contessa, spreading out her white hands, "it is fatiguing even only to hear of it. We love our ease, Bice and I; we go nowhere where we are expected to go." The gentlemen to whom this speech was made laughed "consumedly."
And it was not any charm in the Contessa that drew him. It was that uneasy sense of a possibility which involved responsibility, and which, probably, he would never either make sure of or get rid of. The little house in Mayfair was lighted from garret to basement. If the lights were dim inside they looked bright without.
"My child," said the Contessa, "here is our dear lady who is of a different opinion." "Of what opinion?" Bice cried. She was startled by the sudden appearance, when she had no thought of such an apparition, of Lucy's face so grave and uneasy. It gave a contradiction which was painful to the girl's excitement and delight. "Indeed, I did not mean to find fault," said Lucy.
Your dignity will not allow you to believe that you are actually in love with me, but in spite of yourself you ARE you know you are!" I stood before her in almost somber silence. At last I said: "If YOU say so, contessa, then it must be so.
It was the language of a distorted mind, and lamentable to hear when a sob shattered his voice. "Am I mad?" he asked piteously, clasping his temples. "You are as we are, if you weep," said Vittoria, to sooth him. "Then I have been mad!" he cried, starting. "I knew you a wicked virgin signora contessa, confess to me, marriage has changed you. Has it not changed you?
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