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Marcello's face cleared instantly. Aurora had not told any one that he had quarrelled with his stepfather about her; that was quite evident, for there were not two more truthful people in the world than the Contessa and Kalmon, whose bright brown eyes were at that moment quietly studying his face.
"She is old enough to take care of herself. She doesn't want a chaperon," Sir Tom had said; but nevertheless Lucy would take up a book and sit down at the table and wait: which was the more troublesome that it was precisely at this moment that the Contessa was most amusing and enjoyed herself most. Sir Tom's parliamentary friends had disappeared to the smoking-room when the ladies left the room.
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?
The Contessa was out, in spite of the weather, but Marcello asked if Aurora would see him, and presently he was admitted to the drawing-room, where she was sitting beside a rather dreary little fire, cutting a new book. She threw it down and rose to meet him, as little outwardly disturbed as if they had seen each other constantly during the past two years.
The Contessa would be less nervous, perhaps, if there was only one table: that would be more homey and cosy, and it would at the same time give rise to great heart-burnings and indignation in the breasts of those who were left out. Diva would certainly be one of the spurned, and the Contessa would not play with Mr.
The Queen Mother has never been present at a ball since King Umberto's tragic death." "I wish this evening were over," said Nina, with a half-frightened sigh. The Contessa Olisco, who had caught the remark and the sigh, asked sympathetically, "But why?" "I was nervous enough over going alone to the presentation the other afternoon, but to go to a ball is much worse." "But you won't be alone.
But still she sat on and on upon the bench in the shade musing on many things on the Contessa Violante, on the steps Ludovico had said that he would take this very first day of Lent towards the open breaking off of all engagement with that lady, and on the amount of scandal and difficulty that would thence arise.
Yet Benecke was an outcast, and this youth was already on the ladder of promotion. When he departed the Contessa threw up her hands. 'And that man is just appointed Advent Preacher at one of the greatest churches in Rome! Then she checked herself. 'At the same time, Madame, she said, looking a little stiffly at Eleanor, 'we have learned priests many of them. Eleanor hastened to assent.
This was encouragement to persevere, and I praised the Contessa to him when we happened to be alone together. "You have a short memory it seems," said he. "You told me not so long ago that you'd been in love with a girl who jilted you. Have you forgotten her already?"
She turned upon him that dazzling smile of which she had learned the secret from the Contessa, which was unfathomable to the observer but quite simple to the simple-minded; and then she said: "Do you amuse yourself very much in the evening? I used to hear the voices and think how pleasant it would have been to be there." "Not so pleasant as you think," said the young man.
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