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'Thanks, dear Landi!... But even if he wishes to see me, ought I to go? 'That I don't know. But you will. He lighted the long cigar. Next morning Edith, who always came down to breakfast, though somewhat late, found on her plate a letter from Lady Conroy, that most vague and forgetful of all charming Irishwomen. It said: 'My DEAR MRS OTTLEY,
Like all old soldiers of the Empire, Landi worshipped Napoleon; but there was one of the Bonaparte family for whom the naturalist entertained a still higher feeling of regard, amounting in fact to sincere friendship. This was Charles Lucien, prince of Musignano. Not all the Bonapartes have been bad.
These heights command a vast prospect, and here General Landi, with 3,000 men and four pieces of artillery, prepared to intercept the Garibaldians with every probability of driving them back into the sea. The royal troops took the offensive towards ten o'clock on the 15th of May.
The windows of this chamber were set in the outer wall of the fortress, immediately above the gates and commanding a view of the square. We were six Confalonieri, Landi, the two Pallavicini, Galeotto, and myself, besides a slight fellow named Malvicini, who had been an officer of light-horse in the Duke's service, but who had taken a hand in betraying him.
But the more I reflect on what he said, the more wonderful it seems.... Think how he's cared for me all this time! 'Sans doute. You know that he adores you. But, Edith, it's all very well you put like that but could you go through with it? 'I believe I could now, she answered. 'I begin to long to. You see, I mistook my own feelings, Landi; they seemed dulled.
Edith remembered what Landi had said: 'Si ca l'amuse? She found an opportunity to tell him that Madame Frabelle believed in her own intuitions, and had got it into her head that she and Mr. Mitchell were attached to one another. 'Naturellement. Elle veut s'excuser; la pauvre. 'But she really believes it. 'Elle voit double, alors! exclaimed Landi.
'I'm not at all sure, either, that a composer like Landi is necessarily the right person to judge of youthful genius. 'Perhaps not. And yet you'd think he'd know a bit about it, too! I mean to say, they wouldn't have made him a baronet if he didn't understand his profession. Excuse my saying so, won't you? 'Not at all, she answered. 'It doesn't follow.
And we met with little better success with Sforza of Santafiora, to whose castle we next repaired, or yet with the Landi, the Scotti, or Confalonieri. Everywhere the same spirit of awe was abroad, and the same pusillanimity, content to hug the little that remained rather than rear its head to demand that which by right belonged.
She told him. 'Bien. Du calme, mon enfant; du calme! 'But, I'm anxious, Landi. 'Ca se voit! 'Do you think 'Ce ne sera rien. It's the best thing that could happen to him. He'll be all right.... I suppose you want to see him, Edith? 'He may not wish to see me, said Edith. 'Oh yes, he will. You were the first person he thought of, answered Landi.
Edith said: 'The dreadful thing I've to tell you, Landi, is that I've completely changed. 'Comment? 'Yes. I'm in love with him all over again. 'C'est vrai? 'Yes. I don't know how and I don't know why. When he first made that suggestion, it seemed wild impossible. But the things he said how absolutely true it is. Landi, my life's been wasted, utterly wasted. Landi said nothing.
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