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He tried to laugh at it: he called Dino hard names "Quixotic fool," "dreamer," and "enthusiast" but he could not forget that an ideal of conduct had been presented to his eyes, which was far higher than any which he should have thought possible for himself, and by a man upon whose profession of faith and calling he looked with profound contempt.
Agnes said to her sister in the other room: "If only Cornelli would say something! One cannot tell what she is thinking about. How could Dino find her so amusing, and become her friend? She sits there all the time and never says a word." "That is her least fault," Nika returned. "But it is horrid that she insists on looking like a wild islander.
She had been anxious not to miss a word, and the hair had bothered her very much. Her whole face had become bright and changed during the thrilling tale. "Just look at yourself!" Dino encouraged her, taking a little mirror from the wall and holding it in front of the little girl. "No, no, I do not want to see it!" she cried out.
He would not even, except under a momentary pressure of angry despondency, admit to himself that the will by which he had disinherited Dino would leave Romola the heir of nothing but debts; or that he needed anything from patronage beyond the security that a separate locality should be assigned to his library, in return for a deed of gift by which he made it over to the Florentine Republic.
Dino Vasari has already gone back to Italy, but before he went, he signed a paper relinquishing all claim to the property in favour of Brian Luttrell and myself. Mr.
Oh, mother, mother, how much happier your son would have been if you had reared him in the place where he was born, amongst the vines and olive-yards of his native land. "And I must see Dino to-morrow. So he knows the whole story. I understand now why he thought ill of me for not coming to meet him, poor fellow! I must go early to-morrow."
"No, no," cried Dino, earnestly. "How can you think so of a woman with a face like hers, of a man with a soul like Brian's? Even he has told me little; but he has told me more than he knows and I have guessed the rest. If I had not known before, your face would have told me all." "Tricked!" said Percival, falling back in his chair with a gesture of disgust. "I might have known as much.
But perhaps you will doubt my word too? 'Doubt the word of Eucrates, the learned son of Dino?
"I expect you to cry immediately, though, for you might have to go to town." "Oh, no, Papa, I really would love to see him," said Cornelli. "It is Dino, who stayed with Martha this summer." The father put down his spoon from pure surprise and looked wonderingly at his daughter. "How strange you are, Cornelli!" he said finally. "Now you suddenly want to visit a strange family.
But nobody will ever love you as I did; remember that. And I think that's all." "Have you nothing to say," asked Mr. Colquhoun in very solemn tones, "about your conduct to Dino Vasari and Mrs. Luttrell?" "Nothing to you." "But everything to God," murmured Angela. He raised his eyes to her face and did not speak. "Pray for His forgiveness, Hugo, and He will grant it.
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