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Updated: May 7, 2025
She felt in her heart that her father was probably in the right, that her own conduct was at least unreflecting, and that Edoardo's expenses were too great; but still she found a thousand arguments to excuse both herself and him.
Even the mercers of the city, when they had need of flowers of superior beauty, applied to Sophia, who willingly acceded to their requests. The two days of delay to Edoardo's departure were past, and in those two days the Signora Cadori had had a new and very violent attack, which placed her life in danger. Edoardo came to take leave of the family.
Edoardo's demands increased with his exigencies. He was making rapid advances into the most terrible phases of the gamester's vice; and the mania in Sophia of giving of sacrificing all her means for Edoardo, did not stop.
Edoardo turned towards a table, as if to look for some papers, saying to himself: 'I am lost. And Sophia knelt down by the trunk that contained her clothes, pretending to rummage for something in it, while she wiped away her tears, and suppressed her sighs. Edoardo's bride entered.
Edoardo's little speech was so ingenuous, and, what is more, so true to his Italian temperament, that it made us all laugh and leave the argument just where we found it.
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