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The struggles between them continued sharply during this exchange of intellectual shots; but hearing Ugo Corte's voice, the prisoner's confident audacity forsook him, and he drew a long tight face like the mask of an admonitory exclamation addressed to himself from within. "Stand up straight!" the soldier's command was uttered.
The effect produced by it was exhibited in the placid tolerance shown by the uplifting of Ugo Corte's eyebrows, which said, "Well, here's a voice, certainly." His subsequent look added, "Is this what we have come hither to hear?" Vittoria saw the look. "Am I on my trial before you?" she thought; and the thought nerved her throat.
A moment later they were in Corte's stateroom, panting, grim, triumphant, with their prisoner's back against the wall and their work done. Now that Narcone realized the deception that had been practised upon him he began to curse his betrayer with incredible violence and fluency. As yet he had no idea whither he was being taken, nor for which of his many crimes he had been apprehended.
A flush had deadened Corte's face to the hue of nightshade. "You thunder in a clear atmosphere, my Ugo," returned the old man, as he fell back calmly at full length. "And who is this signorina Vittoria?" cried Corte. "A cantatrice who is about to appear upon the boards, as I have already remarked: of La Scala, let me add, if you hold it necessary." "And what does she do here?"
He was joined by Count Karl Lenkenstein on the day when Carlo Ammiani encountered them, with the rear of Colonel Corte's band marching for Vicenza. In the collision between the Austrians and the volunteers, Rinaldo was taken fighting upon his knee-cap.
We have decided that the news from the king's army is good." A perceptible shudder in Vittoria's frame at this concluding sentence caught Corte's eye. "Are you dissatisfied with that arrangement?" he addressed her boldly. "I am, Colonel Corte," she replied. So simple was the answering tone of her voice that Corte had not a word.
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