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Updated: May 14, 2025
And I went with him and played. I have never given way to paroxysms of temper; not exactly because I was naturally cool and collected, but because my profession had taught me presence of mind and self-control. Violent wrath, violent terror, and violent love could not attack me. Countess Flamma's singular disclosure had made a twofold impression.
Countess Diodora's philosophical intellect impressed me as much as Countess Cenni's unruly activity; and Countess Flamma's pensive silence affected me none the less, and I looked at her with the reverential awe of the priest before the Holy Virgin. Only one thing puzzled me.
By the next express train I went to Brussels, and then straight to the banker to whom I had sent Flamma's million. I opened the chest in his presence, and convinced him that it actually contained good security bonds and deeds for the sum of one million and twenty-five thousand florins par and asked him for an advance.
"There is something else," said Diodora. "After the wedding ceremony I shall hand you over Flamma's dowry, which she has inherited from her grandfather. It consists of a million of florins in good bonds." I bowed in silence, looking at Flamma.
I understood the gesture, and extended my hand to Flamma. She accepted it, and I bowed and kissed her hand. That was our betrothal. Siegfried took out a cigarette, lighted it, and blow the smoke at the chandelier. "I had other intentions concerning Flamma's future," said Diodora again, "but, since her choice has fallen on you, I am satisfied at least, I do not object.
During the recital of this story, Cenni's rosy countenance was crimsoned through and through, while Flamma's pale face was overspread with an almost deadly pallor, and, as I spoke the final words, the girls looked at each other in silence.
The little boy we christened William James. He was a well-formed, healthy child, and I myself had conscientiously selected a nurse for him. When at last no harm was to be feared from excitement, and Flamma's health was fully established, I wrote her a line that I should like to have some conversation with her on money matters that afternoon.
It had been my first care to take it home from the banking-house where it had been deposited. I had repaid the amount of the loan, received the securities, and found them all in excellent order. By this time the period of Flamma's confinement had arrived, and a son was born.
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