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Evidently he had recovered completely from his lesson. He looked gay and handsome. Artois realized how very completely the young rascal's desires were being fulfilled. But of course the introduction must be made. He made it quietly. "Marchese Isidoro Panacci Mrs. Delarey." The Marchesino bent and kissed Hermione's hand.
The battle within him was over. He must protect the padrona. The padrone would have wished it. Then he must let Salvatore go. He bent down and kissed Hermione's hand. "Lei non piange!" he muttered. "Forse Dio la aiuter
He had deeply felt the truth of what she had said to him in England, that he should be able to silence hints like those Chrysophrasia had let fall, that he should place himself in such a position as to defy insults instead of being obliged to bear them quietly; and the conviction brought home to him by Hermione's words had resulted in his immediate departure, with the determination to fathom the mystery, and to clear himself forever, or to sacrifice his love in case of failure.
Her intellect seemed to be collapsing. She looked almost bovine. Hermione's excitement began to be complicated by a feeling of hot anger. "But don't you know it? You must know it!" The parrot shuffled slowly along the board, coming nearer to them, and bowing its head obsequiously. Hermione could not help watching its movements with a strained attention. Its presence distracted her.
Vere came slowly from the house, and at once Hermione's newly made and not yet carried out resolution crumbled into dust. She forgot the sun, the sea, the peaceful situation and all material things. She was confronted by the painful drama of the island life! Vere with her secrets, Emile with his, Gaspare fighting to keep her, his Padrona, still in mystery.
He told himself that Vere was unique, and that he longed to keep her unique, so that the talent he discerned in her might remain unaffected. How great her talent was he did not know. He would not know, perhaps, for a very long time. But it was definite, it was intimate. It was Vere's talent, no one else's. He had made up his mind very soon about Hermione's incapacity to produce work of value.
It struck me that his more gentle look might have been wholly due to the pleasure he took in Hermione's society; but I dismissed the idea as improbable. Macaulay sat down by his mother, and began telling the incidents of the day's hunting in his smooth, unmodulated voice.
As Artois walked to a point from which he could see one of the windows of Hermione's bedroom, he knew that he longed to see a light there. If the window was dark the form of his fear would be more distinct. He reached the point and looked up. There was no light. He stood there for some time gazing at that darkness.
And she had many a time danced to the tarantella that the shepherd-boy was fluting, clapping her strong hands and swinging her broad hips, while the great rings in her ears shook to and fro, and her whole healthy body quivered to the spirit of the tune. She knew it all. It was and had always been part of her life. Hermione's garden of paradise generally seemed homely enough to Lucrezia.
"God bless you, my dear!" she said, throwing her arms around Hermione's neck and kissing her heartily. "Perhaps everything is for the best, and, anyway, you've married into a family of honest men and true women."
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