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For when Odoacer and his Turklings and other confederates went up into Rugiland, the country north of Vienna, and destroyed the Rugians, and Fava their king, then the Lombards went down into the waste land of the Rugians, because it was fertile, and abode there certain years. Then they moved on again, we know not why, and dwelt in the open plains, which are called feld.
Then, with a shrug and a wave of her arms, as though to sweep every one out of the room, she cried petulantly, "Go! and eat, all of you. I am glad, if only you go!" The company, for the most part, laughed and went into the dining-room, whence the sound of revelry gradually grew louder. The Count Rosso alone remained with the hostess. "Come, Fava, don't be so headstrong you're spoiling the party."
She fears that Miss America will cut the leading strings of Giovanni." "Why pout at that? Giovanni will then be rich a rich lover is better than a poor one any day!" laughed another soubrette. "What is the matter with Fava, anyway?" put in a third. "She was quite delighted with the American's arrival at first. Now she might draw a stiletto at any time."
She was conscious of nothing and of no one but Giovanni, whom she was feeding with her own fork. His appetite, however, paying small compliment to her attention, she arose, and he followed her into the other room. Whereupon her guests, less constrained without her, drank and were merry. In the salon Giovanni's musical, caressing voice was saying, "You look bewitching to-night, Fava mia!"
The group fell into a half-sympathetic hush as she moved back again to the door of the entrance. A little woman a café singer broke into a snatch of song: "The moon has two sides, a black and a white, When the heart is dark there can be no light." Laughing, she snapped her fingers. "Fava has been in a bad temper ever since that American heiress came to Rome.
A mystic and diabolic aspect of the Fraternity is so remote from his mind that in his "Secret of Freemasonry" the Bishop of Grenoble affirms that its sole project is to replace Christianity by rationalism. The third and concluding volume of Père Deschamps' great compilation on "Society and the Secret Societies," supports, on the contrary, the hypothesis rejected by Fava.
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