Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 14, 2025
"And you call yourself old Lamberto, Marchese! Why I would wager my pearl necklace, and that is the most valuable possession I have against a daisy chain, that you are not ten years older than I am. I shall be called old Bianca Lalli next, at that rate!"
And how terribly those troubles pressed on him was evident to the whole household; and, by means of their reports, to the entire city. Everybody in Ravenna knew with how heavy a hand affliction had fallen upon the Marchese Lamberto. And everybody talked of it.
Those five words may possibly, in the course of the world's history, have occurred before in the same combination. But the phrase served the occasion as well as if it had been entirely new and original. "Indeed, I do not, Lamberto; nor will you again, I trust, ever doubt mine as you seemed to do last night.
And if it really were the case, that the unfortunate young man, driven by the prospect of being hurled down from his position and robbed of his inheritance, had done this deed, how great, how terrible, must be the remorse of the Marchese Lamberto!
"Likely enough she may have endeavoured to entrap the Marchese Lamberto; but not very likely," old Orsola thought, "that that exemplary nobleman should have been caught by her wiles.
He was an older man by several years than the Marchese Lamberto; and he it had been, who, when the present Marchese was a child of ten years old, had put him on his first pony, and been his riding-master.
But that such had come to be the case long before the evening when the Marchese Lamberto sought his nephew at the Circolo, and could not find him, can hardly be doubted.
I did think," she continued, casting down her eyes, and hesitating with the most charmingly becoming and naive confusion; "I had some little hope no; I don't mean that; I did not mean to put that into my confession; it did occur to me as possible," she went on, hanging her pretty head, and playing nervously with the folds of her dress in a manner which had the accidental effect of causing it to leave uncovered an additional inch of silk stocking "it did occur to me as possible that the Marchese Lamberto might come to me sooner than the time named for the meeting with the impresario; for the sake of giving me any hints that his perfect knowledge of the subject might suggest; and I fully intended to be dressed and ready to receive him if be should show me any such condescending kindness- -and so told my maid to make an exception in his case to my invariable rule!
The Marchese Ludovico and the young Barone Manutoli were to accompany the Marchese Lamberto, and to assist in receiving the lady; but were to return to the city in the carriage which she would leave, on getting into that of the Marchese, or in any other way that might seem good to them. The Marchese Lamberto and the lady alone were to occupy his handsome family equipage.
She made a very low and graceful curtsey to Ludovico, as she took it from his hand; but her eyes thanked the Marchese Lamberto, who still remained close in his corner, for the gift. The fact was that he was too much moved by violent and contending emotions to dare to trust himself to hand the flowers himself.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking