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You have a fortune of your own, and so have I. The name is, after all, an affair which concerns you personally. I should have married you as readily had you been called anything else." The reference to the past made Giovanni's heart leap, and the colour came quickly to his face.
Even the uncompromising façade of S. Francesco helped; and the Dukes were like statues of the 'Gran Commendatore, waiting for Don Giovanni's invitation. Through the loveliest Arcadian scenery of woods and fields and rushing waters the road leads downward from Varese to Castiglione.
She was forced to halt; but her feet did not stand quite still, and there was an effect of briefly suspended motion in her attitude, as though she sought a chance to dart past him. "Good-morning, signorina!" Giovanni's urbanity was for the benefit of the footmen.
There was music for the encouragement of conversation, an expensively famous prima donna and a group of strings brought down from the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The prima donna sang Donna Elvira's ferocious aria full of indignation at discovering Don Giovanni's Don Juanity.
As they were walking between the silvery willows that border the water, the holy man said: "Let us sit; for now I am weary." So they sat down beneath a willow, and watched the water-flags curling their sword-like leaves on the river banks and the bright-coloured flies flashing over the surface. But Giovanni's laughter was ceased, and his face was sad.
Nevertheless Ugo, who had been gradually rising in the social scale for many years, saw no reason why he should not win the hand of Donna Tullia as well as any one else, if only Giovanni Saracinesca could be kept out of the way; and he devoted himself with becoming assiduity to the service of the widow, while doing his utmost to promote Giovanni's attachment for the Astrardente, which he had been the first to discover.
And now, after Giovanni's words, di Leynì himself knew everything! It seemed to them they had almost been guilty of treason. They were convinced that Jeanne must have reasons of which they were ignorant for saying she did not believe in the possibility of an arrest. They remarked that Benedetto might now accept their proffered hospitality.
Too proud to think of obtaining information through such base channels as Del Ferice was willing to use, he was wholly ignorant of Corona's intentions; and it was a brilliant proof of Ugo's astuteness that he had rightly judged Giovanni's position with regard to her, and justly estimated the value of the news conveyed by his anonymous note.
You shall see that I am grateful," answered the boy. He touched Giovanni's sleeve and kissed his own hand, and ran back to the steps before the front door. There he knelt down, leaning over the water, and washed his face in the canal, well pleased with the price he had got for his bruising. Giovanni did not look at him, but turned to go on, past the corner of the house, in deep thought.
"Not for your estates," said the great Cardinal, his small keen black eyes resting searchingly on Giovanni's face. "But I confess I have some fears for yourself." "For me, Eminence?" repeated Giovanni, in some astonishment. "For you. I have heard with considerable anxiety that there is a question of marrying you to Madame Mayer.
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