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Gelsomina had forgotten her mask in her hurry, and the gondola was no sooner in the great canal than she put her face at the window of the pavilion in quest of the evening air. The rays of the moon fell upon her guileless eye, and a cheek that was now glowing, partly with offended pride, and partly with joy at her escape from a situation she felt to be so degrading.
"I should then repent me of the only hours of happiness I have known for years," he said. "Thou hast been to me, Gelsomina, like a flower in a desert a pure spring to a feverish man a gleam of hope to one suffering under malediction. No, no, not for a moment have I repented knowing thee, my Gelsomina!" "'Twould not have made my life more happy, Carlo, to have thought I had added to thy sorrows.
But these were particulars that Gelsomina did not note, as she followed Gino through the apartments, into the more private parts of the building. Here the gondolier unlocked a door, and regarding his companion with an air, half-doubting, half-respectful, he made a sign for her to enter. "My master commonly receives the ladies here," he said.
Crossing the gallery, he cast a glance beneath him, and saw the same dark watery passage, leading between the masonry of two massive piles to the quay and the port. "Gelsomina!" he cried, recoiling from the sight, "this is the Bridge of Sighs!" "It is, Carlo; hast thou ever crossed it before?" "Never: nor do I understand why I cross it now.
Jacopo then recounted in simple and undisguised terms, the entire means employed by Don Camillo in effecting his escape his hopes, his disappointments, and his final success. In this narrative nothing was concealed but the place in which the ladies had temporarily taken refuge, and the name of Gelsomina.
And he knows everything we do and everything we think." "'We' your aunt, your governess and your nurse? What a varied wealth of knowledge!" "Ah Miss Merriman and Gelsomina tell him only what they like." "And do you and the Duchess tell him what you DON'T like?" "Oh often but we always like HIM no matter what we tell him. And we know that just the same he always likes us."
He left the door ajar for the darkness of the closet sufficiently concealed his person. In the meantime Gelsomina opened the outer door for the admission of her visitor. At the first sound of the latter's voice, Jacopo, who had little suspected the fact from a name which was so common, recognised the artful daughter of the wine-seller.
"Thou art at thy ease, here, Gelsomina," cried the latter, entering and throwing herself into a seat, like one fatigued. "Thy mother is better, and thou art truly mistress of the house." "I would I were not, Annina; for I am young to have this trust, with this affliction." "It is not so insupportable, Gessina, to be mistress within doors, at seventeen! Authority is sweet, and obedience is odious."
"Thou must feel their weight in the poignancy of grief in the " Father Anselmo stopped, for a sob at that moment apprised them that they were not alone. Moving aside, in a little alarm, the action discovered the figure of the shrinking Gelsomina, who had entered the cell, favored by the keepers, and concealed by the robes of the Carmelite.
Gelsomina arose, and, though bewildered by the tale of her cousin, and her own previous impressions, she stood resembling a meek statue of modesty, awaiting his approach. The Neapolitan was evidently struck by her beauty, and the simplicity of her air, but his brow was fixed, like that of a man who had steeled his feelings against deceit. "Thou would'st see me?" he said.
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