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But Madame Francesca, putting aside the burden of her seventy years, laughed and talked and told stories with all the zest of a girl. Inspired by her shining example, the Colonel dragged forth a few musty old anecdotes and offered them for inspection. They were new to the younger generation, and Madame affected to find them new also.
And then he's young and got rather an attractive personality, which is always something in the political world." "His lack of money will handicap him, unless he can find himself a rich wife or persuade someone to die and leave him a fat legacy," said Francesca; "since M.P.'s have become the recipients of a salary rather more is expected and demanded of them in the expenditure line than before."
I dragged Francesca from palace to palace, and she either looked at nothing or merely just glanced carelessly at all the various masterpieces. Paul followed us, growling all sorts of disagreeable things. Then we all three took a silent drive into the country and returned to dinner.
If they could only speak, what tragedies and comedies they could tell us of, what flirtations and proposals." "Let us be devoutly thankful that they can't," said Francesca, with a shuddering recollection of the luncheon-table conversation.
'All in the Trosachs' glen was still, Noontide was sleeping on the hill: Sudden his guide whoop'd loud and high "Murdoch! was that a signal cry?" "It was indeed," said Francesca, appearing suddenly at an upper window overhanging the garden.
<b>MAGLIANI, FRANCESCA.</b> Born at Palermo in 1845, and studied painting there under a private teacher. Going later to Florence she was a pupil of Bedussi and of Gordigiani. Her early work consisted of copies from the Italian and other masters, and these were so well done that she soon began to receive orders, especially for portraits, from well-known people.
Everything we take the trouble to learn in our youth, even the most futile, is of use. If my wife had not received a man's education an unheard-of thing in Italy I should have been obliged to chop wood to get my living here. Povera Francesca! who would have told me that she would some day maintain me!"
While she remained there engaged in prayer, Agnese de Sellis the superioress, assembled the sisters in the chapter-room, and declared to them, that now that their true mother and foundress had come amongst them, it would be absurd for her to remain in her present office; that Francesca was their guide, their head, and that into her hands she would instantly resign her authority.
Francesca would not have confined herself to that blameless mode of expression, you may be sure, and I was glad that she was on the back seat of the car.
So far as his work was concerned, what he did was as good as ever. Francesca thought it was even better. But otherwise he was a changed man. In the course of the winter Paul Griggs returned. One day Francesca was sitting in the hall with Reanda, when a servant announced that Griggs had asked to see her.
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