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He had read in the papers of the violence done to her, and had at once dismissed her from his mind with a muttered "Povera Ragazza!" She was no longer beautiful. And now he discovered her living as a servant with the ladies of the island. Who could have put her there? He thought of Emilio's colloquy with Maria Fortunata. But the Signora? A mother? What did it all mean?
They all turned to stare, and the cioccara put out her tongue as Olive went by. Rosina instantly replied in kind. "Ohè! Fortunata! Benedetta ragazza! Resting as usual? Does Lorenz still beat you?" She described the antecedents and characteristics of Lorenz. The slower-witted country girl had a more limited vocabulary. Her eyes glared in the shadow of her white coif. "Ah," she gasped.
This lady exhibits her jewels with much complacency, and Trimalchio's wife Fortunata, roused to competition, does the same. Trimalchio has now arrived at that stage of the evening's entertainment when mournful views of life begin to present themselves. He calls for the necessary documents, and forthwith proceeds to make his will.
Among the day-dreams of the Rulers of Venice the island of Cyprus had long loomed large and fair Cyprus, the happy isle of romance, l'isola fortunata, sea-girdled, clothed with dense forests of precious woods, veined with inexhaustible mines of rich metals; a very garden of luscious fruits, garlanded with ever-blooming flowers a land flowing with milk and honey and steeped in the fragrance of wines that a god might covet.
As for Trimalchio, he groaned heavily and bent over his arm as though it had been injured: doctors flocked around him, and Fortunata was among the very first, her hair was streaming and she held a cup in her hand and screamed out her grief and unhappiness. As for the boy who had fallen, he was crawling at our feet, imploring pardon.
"I give Philargus a country farm, and his she-comrade; to Carrio an island, with a twentieth part of my moveables, a bed and its furniture; for I make Fortunata my heiress, whom I recommend to all my friends, and publish what I have done, to the end my family may so love me now, as if I were dead."
As you know a great ship carries a great deal of force, I loaded them again with wine, bacon, beans, unguents, planes: And here Fortunata shewed her affection; for she sold what she had; nay, her very cloaths, and put a round sum in my pocket; tho' yet it was but a pig of my own sow.
Artois drew out a cigar, lit it slowly, then got up, and began to move out among the tables. The priest looked after him, spoke rapidly to his companions, and burst into a throaty laugh which was loudly echoed. "Maria Fortunata is in luck to-night!" said some one. Then the band began again, the waiter came with more ices, and the tall, long-bearded forestiere was forgotten.
Vere's coolness to him, even avoidance of him, had struck hammer-like blows upon his amour propre. He saw her now yes, he saw her coming down the stairs behind Peppina. Had they been together? Did they talk together, the cold, the prudish Signorina Inglese so he called Vere now in his anger and the former decoy of Maria Fortunata?
Trimalchio observed it, and commanding all to be laid before him, "See," said he, "this womans finery, and what fools our wives make us; they should be six pound and a half; yet I've another of Mercury's making, that weighs ten": And that he might not be thought to tell a lye, called for his gold scales, and commanded them to be weighed: Nor had Scintilla more wit than t'other, for pulling a golden box out of her bosom, which she called good luck, she took out of it two large pearl pendants, giving them in like manner to Fortunata to view: "See," quoth she, "what 'tis to have a kind husband, I am sure no woman has better."
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