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"You shall see," she said, fiercely "you shall see that it is all true. You shall see this man's face when I accuse him you shall see him humiliated, overthrown, exposed in his villany the wretch! You shall see how " Corona's strong voice interrupted her enemy's invective in ringing tones. "Be silent!" she cried. "In twenty minutes he will be here.
They do not know why sometimes, on Madame's 'Wednesdays, I am pale with sitting up on behalf of the Almanac. For Capricornus's sake and for Corona's all this is hid from the world. Madame and I are the victims of a double life. Yes, sir, for the children's sake we have never dared to let it be known what I really am." Suddenly he began to grow excited.
By the time it was over the sun had set, and the autumn evening air, even in that southern clime, was growing very chilly. So the three friends arose from the table. Rothsay and Corona turned to go up the hill. Clarence escorted them, carrying Corona's bag. They parted at the door of the log cabin.
Had not the old woman confessed before he had found the note, too, that a lady had been there but a short time before? Did not these facts agree singularly with Corona's having left him to wait for her during that interval in the public gardens? Above all, did not this conclusion explain at once all those things in her conduct which had so much disturbed him during the past week?
Wherever you go, it is Giovanni!" cried the old man, in unreasonable petulance unreasonable from his point of view, reasonable enough had he known the truth. But he struck unconsciously upon the key-note of all Corona's troubles, and she turned pale to the lips. "You say it is not true," he began again. "How do you know? How can you tell what may have been said? How can you guess it?
Then after a pause, she added, "We are going to visit our road, Monsieur Gouache. Will you not come with us? My husband will give you a horse." Gouache was charmed. He preferred talking to Giovanni and looking at Corona's face to returning to his six Zouaves, or patrolling the hills in search of Del Ferice.
It was not generally known that in the short time which elapsed between the naming of the day and the issuing of the cards, there had been several interviews between old Saracinesca and Cardinal Antonelli; that the former had explained Corona's natural wish that the marriage should be private, and that the latter had urged many reasons why so great an event ought to be public; that Saracinesca had said he did not care at all, and was only expressing the views of his son and of the bride; that the Cardinal had repeatedly asseverated that he wished to please everybody; that Corona had refused to be pleased by a public ceremony; and that, finally, the Cardinal, seeing himself hard pressed, had persuaded his Holiness himself to express a wish that the marriage should take place in the most solemn and public manner; wherefore Corona had reluctantly yielded the point, and the matter was arranged.
The outline seemed almost vaporous, as though melting into the transparency of the quiet air; the gentle brown eyes were at once full of suffering and full of love; the soft, thick hair fell in disorder upon her shoulders, in that exquisite disorder that belongs to beautiful things in nature when they are set free and fall into the position which is essentially their own; her white fingers, refined and expressive, held Corona's slender olive hand, pressing it and moving as they touched it, with every word she spoke.
Nevertheless he could see that something had occurred in his cousin's household which was beyond his comprehension, for Corona's illness was not alone enough to account for the manner of the Saracinesca.
He was blinded by something which destroys the mental vision more surely than anger or hatred, or pride, or love itself. To some extent he was to be pardoned. The chain of circumstantial evidence was consecutive and so convincing that many a just person would have accepted Corona's guilt as the only possible explanation of what had happened.
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