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That same evening the stranger desired his servitore di piazza to make inquiries about Signora Orsola Steno, and her niece, who copied in the gallery; and the next morning he was told that, if he would call upon the Director of the Gallery, that gentleman would be happy to reply to any inquiries about the Signorina Paolina Foscarelli.
"Why they say, Signor Dottore some of them some of them are wicked enough to say that that dear blessed child has it is enough to blister one's tongue to say it has done that dreadful thing; Santa Maria abbia misericordia that murder in the forest. O Dio mio! Why " "Is she any relative of yours, Signora, the Signorina Paolina Foscarelli?" asked the lawyer, quietly.
As the opinion, however, began to gain ground in the city, that the Marchesino Ludovico had, after all, not been the author of the murder; that the first impression, however clearly the circumstances seemed, at the first blush of the thing, to point to it, was a mistaken one; and that the far more probable opinion was that the Venetian girl, Paolina Foscarelli, was the murderess, and jealousy the incentive to her crime, the compassion for the Marchese Lamberto became proportionably less.
"No!" said the monk, shaking his head, with a deep sigh, and looking earnestly into the girl's face, but without any appearance of surprise, "No; you are not Paolina Foscarelli."
I cannot abandon that part of my case that rests upon the striking fact that your own first impression was that Paolina was guilty." "I utterly deny, and will continue to deny, that any such impression was ever present to my mind. I wholly refuse to avail myself of any defence based on any such supposition; on any idea at all, that Paolina Foscarelli is guilty.
Other young women, who seemed as little likely to be capable of such a deed as this Signorina Foscarelli, have committed such and have done it under the pressure of motives exactly similar to those which we know with certainty to have been vehemently operative in the heart of the Venetian." "Motives! What conceivable motive could have existed to " "What motive?
But the truth is, Signor Marchese, that our inquiries with reference to this Padre Fabiano have brought to light facts which tend to make the case stronger against the girl Paolina Foscarelli." "I tell you, Signor Fortini, that the notion of her guilt is more entirely preposterous than any other possible imagination.
Look at the facts as they stand: we know that this Paolina Foscarelli was in the immediate neighbourhood of the spot where the deed was done, and as nearly as possible at the time when it was done; we know excuse me, Signor Marchese, for speaking very plainly; it is absolutely necessary to be plain we know that this girl had great reason to feel jealous of La Bianca.
"And to you, Signor Marchese, it assuredly cannot appear strange that the circumstances I have enumerated should carry with them the conviction to other minds that Paolina Foscarelli is guilty of the murder of the singer," continued the lawyer, speaking very slowly and fixing the keen glance of his dark bright eyes on the working face of his companion; "to you, above all others, this cannot appear strange, since to your own mind this suspicion first occurred."
And what he mainly wanted was to bid me go to the Signorina Paolina Foscarelli, in order to prepare her for the probability of her own arrest, and to comfort her with the assurance that no evil could come to her.
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