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Updated: May 2, 2025
"His holiness instructed me to read this document to your apostolic majesty," said Monsignore Garampi, with a respectful inclination of the head. "Will your majesty allow me?" "Certainly," said the empress, leaning forward to listen.
Joseph was about to snake an angry retort, when the door opened and a page announced, with great formality: "His highness Prince Kaunitz, and his eminence the papal nuncio, Monsignore Garampi." The two ministers followed close upon the announcement, and the nuncio was received by the empress with a beaming smile.
Therese continued as though she had not heard the interruption "My application went through Monsignore Garampi, the papal nuncio, who promised to use his influence in my behalf." "What an edifying couple!" exclaimed Kinsky, with another scornful laugh. "How congenial! The same wishes, and, unconsciously, the very same deeds!
The first thing that came to light was a necklace of diamond solitaires. "These three stars of the first magnitude," said she, contemplating the centre stones, "are the involuntary contribution of the Princess Garampi I borrowed her bracelet for a model, giving my word that it should not pass from my hands. Nor has it done so, for I have kept her brilliants and returned her mine.
She was repaid for all her terrors, she was happy and secure! "Whom the gods would destroy, they first blind." She was so absorbed in the magnificence of her diamond necklace for which she had been indebted to the Princess Garampi, that she did not hear the footfall of the men who were close behind her. They smiled, and pantomimed one to another as they watched her toying with her flashing jewels.
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