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Newton sat without the power of speech so much was she surprised; at last she said, "It is Fanny's father! I know, I am sure it can be no one else!" Mr. Walton looked surprised, for he had never thought of this; he was almost sorry to think his little flower-girl should have another protector. At length he said it must be as Mrs.
No, it is restful only to recall these wonderful men." One of Raphael's most beautiful Virgins was modeled from a beautiful flower-girl whom he loved, "La Belle Jardiniere." Raphael as well as Michael Angelo was summoned by Pope Julius II., but how different were the two occasions! Michael Angelo had stood with dogged, gloomy self-assertiveness before the pope, head covered, knee unbent.
The signal was almost immediately answered by three similar raps from within; then the window was thrown open and a woman's head appeared. The moonlight fell full upon her face, and both Espérance and Giovanni suddenly started as they recognized Annunziata Solara, the bewitching flower-girl of the Piazza del Popolo. "It is she it is Annunziata!" whispered the young Viscount in his comrade's ear.
"Thank you, sir," said the flower-girl, curtseying; and taking the two sixpences into her hand with a delighted smile, was going to run back again, when the old gentleman, pulling out a pocket-book, said, "Stay a moment; you are an orphan, they tell me; what is your name?" "Fanny, sir." "Fanny what?" "Please, I don't know, sir; grandmother is Mrs.
"I'm the gipsy girl Caranina, and I should like to tell your fortune, kind and generous sir." Just then the pretty face of Cicely was seen peeping over the rectory grounds. She was dressed as a flower-girl, and looked more lovely than he had ever seen her before. "Why, dad, dad," she cried, "oh! you must come in and join our fun. Mustn't he, Maggie?"
The young Viscount, for it was, indeed, he whom the gigantic masked brigand had halted, was staggered for an instant by this unlooked for interruption of his journey in pursuit of the beautiful flower-girl. He gazed at the huge ruffian in front of him first in bewilderment and then in anger.
The lady's maid was all the while searching behind every bush, as if she were looking for a lost pin. "I do so need more fresh flowers for my character," the flower-girl continued. "Where can he be?" The maid went on searching, and kept chuckling to herself. "What did you say, Rosetta?" the flower-girl asked, shrewishly.
"And even funny old Si Snubbins had tears in his eyes at the last when he begged us to find his Celia." "I know it," Bess agreed sympathetically. "But I can't help being excited just the same. If we should find them at this Mother Beasley's " "I don't expect that; but we may hear of them there," said Nan. "Here's our new chum." The flower-girl had darted away to sell one of her little bouquets.
'It has ever been celebrated for its sorcerers, returned Nydia, timidly. 'Knowest thou, then, blind Thessalian, of any love-charms? 'I! said the flower-girl, coloring; 'I! how should I? No, assuredly not! 'The worse for thee; I could have given thee gold enough to have purchased thy freedom hadst thou been more wise.
Even the meanest peasant feels the arrow of the little blind god!" The young men were amused and interested. Though belonging to the lower class, this poor flower-girl had certainly received some education and was endowed with a fair share of the finer feelings. Espérance felt attracted towards her, and Giovanni experienced a fascination not difficult to account for.
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