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The countess had barely arrived at the end of her confidences, when a knock was heard, and Mademoiselle Victorine walked in with a message from the marchioness. "What message?" cried Strozzi, rising at once to receive it. "Pardon me, excellenza, it is only a message for the signora," said Victorine, courtesying.
On Shrove-Tuesday the padrona gave a large entertainment, and when I led the servants and stood behind the signorina and Don Luis, to whom her excellenza had long been in the habit of assigning the seat beside her niece, I noticed that their hands met under the table and rested in each other's clasp a long time.
"Excellenza, he who had fought for us like a tempest, an angel of doom, lay there beside my cousin Beppo, who was past help and is now in holy Paradise Speranza was washing the smoke and powder from him, the wound was easy death of my soul! may he who gave it die unconfessed! See you, I am there, I watch him, the friend of Excellenza, the great still man who smiled but said no word to us.
"Barnardine," says he, "you are an honest man, I think I can trust you." I assured his excellenza that he could. "Then," says he, as near as I can remember, "I have an affair in hand, which I want you to assist me in." Then he told me what I was to do; but that I shall say nothing about it concerned only the Signora. 'O Heavens! exclaimed Emily 'what have you done?
Wilhelm shook his head, and the Italian continued, "There are other doctors in Leyden, but Father Damianus says de Bont or Bontius, as they call him, is the most skilful and learned of them all, and as the old excellenza herself had an attack of illness about noon, and certainly won't leave her bed very speedily, the way is open, and Father Damianus says he'll go to Doctor Bontius himself if necessary.
"Nay, I must rest, and hear it now. Here, here is a wide landing, and through this leeward slit, no wind, but ample light. Tell us of your law; and at large." "Since, Excellenza, you insist, know that there is a law in art, which bars the possibility of duplicates.
By noon, the elector had obtained the relinquishment of the Palazzo Capello for the prince, and the Marquis de Villars had taken up his quarters at the Palazzo Manfredino." "From whom did you learn all these details?" "From one of the gondoliers that rowed Prince Eugene this morning, my half-brother Beppo. 'Whither shall I row you, excellenza? asked he.
You must know that my mistress; on her mother's side, is descended from a family in Normandy. The Marquis d'Avennes was certainly an elegant cavalier, but rather dainty than manly. He was soon madly in love with Fraulein Anna, and asked in due form for her hand. Her excellenza favored the match, and the father said simply: 'You will take him! He would listen to no opposition.
As I was about to say: for one, I like this law forbidding duplicates. It evokes fine personalities. Yes, Excellenza, that strange, and to you uncertain smile, and those fore-looking eyes of Una, suit Bannadonna very well." "Hark! sure we left no soul above?" "No soul, Excellenza; rest assured, no soul Again the mortar." "It fell not while we were there."
But the wedding did not take place, for the marquis was obliged to go to Italy with the army and her excellenza lived in perpetual anxiety about him; at that time the French fared ill in my country, and he often left her whole months without news. At last he returned and found in the Chevreaux's house his betrothed wife's little cousin, who had grown up into a charming young lady.
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