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Updated: June 5, 2025
The Count let the usual hour for calling slip past next day, for he began to fear lest he had duped himself and had made this humble couple pay too dear for their improved circumstances and added wisdom, since their peace was destroyed for ever. At last Giardini came to him with a note from Marianna. "Come," she wrote, "the mischief is not so great as you so cruelly meant it to be."
Impatience was manifested at the tedious majesty and formal graces, the parade of arguments, grave sayings, and shreds of philosophy, which characterized their fathers; and a smarter and more sparkling kind of oratory succeeded, just as in our own country the minuet of the last century has been supplanted by the quadrille, and the stately movements of Giardini have given way to Rossini's brisker and more artificial melodies.
We will go to-morrow and choose a place where he may live. "Have you such regard for me as will allow you to make me the partner in your guardianship?" Marianna, surprised at such magnanimity, held out her hand to the Count, who went away, trying to evade the civilities of Giardini and his wife. On the following day Giardini took the Count up to the room where the Gambaras lodged.
"Ecco la Marianna!" exclaimed the cook. Marianna recognized Giardini, the erewhile cook, in the poor fellow she saw, without wondering by what series of disasters he had sunk to keep a miserable shop for secondhand food. She went in and sat down, for she had come from Fontainebleau. She had walked fourteen leagues that day, after begging her bread from Turin to Paris.
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