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'The more I know her, the more I like her. She's the most good-natured, jolly, kind woman I've ever seen. Landi likes her too. That's a good sign. 'And she keeps Bruce in a good temper? said Mrs Ottley slyly. 'Well, why shouldn't she? I'm not afraid of Madame Frabelle, Edith said, laughing. 'After all, Bruce may be thirty-seven, but she's fifty. 'She's a wonderful woman, admitted Mrs.
'Unmarried, answered Pina in her hard voice, and she turned away. For Landi was a patrician name; and though Jews, when baptized, usually took the surname of the noble under whose auspices they were converted, it was quite clear that Pina was not of Semitic race.
Your two friends are well-known Bravi and are at present lodging at the Orso inn, where you were, and your serving-woman is Filippina Landi, who escaped from a convent in Lombardy with a young Venetian and was abandoned by him.
As Bruce, Edith and Madame Frabelle came in together, Landi went straight to Edith's side. Looking at her through his eyeglass, he said, as if to himself, in an anxious tone: 'Elle a quelquechose, cette enfant; oui, elle a quelquechose, and as the last guest had not arrived he sat down thoughtfully by her on the small sofa. 'Yes, Landi, there is something the matter.
Aylmer, besides, was far too exclusive in his affections, far too jealous, ever to be able to endure to see Edith under Bruce's thumb, ordered about, trying to please him; and indeed Landi was most anxious that they should not be alone too much, in case, now that Edith cared for him so much, his feelings would carry him away.... Yes, if it once went too far the elopement was a certainty.
Here we were met by Confalonieri, who also had half a dozen men with him. He greeted us, and issued his orders sharply. "You, Ser Agostino, are to come with us, whilst you others are to remain here until Messer Landi arrives with the remainder of our forces. He should have a score of men with him, and they will cut down the guard when they enter.
The great building at the opposite side of the piazza, where the trams start, is a good example of modern Florentine architecture based on the old: the Palazzo Landi, built in 1871 and now chiefly an insurance office. In London we have a more attractive though smaller derivative of the great days of Florentine building, in Standen's wool shop in Jermyn Street.
We slept in Piacenza that night, in a big house in the street that leads to the Church of San Lazzaro, and there was a company of perhaps a dozen assembled there, the principals being the brothers Pallavicini of Cortemaggiore, who had been among the first to feel the iron hand of Pier Luigi; there were also present Agostino Landi, and the head of the house of Confalonieri.
It would be an ideal life, Landi. He was still silent. She continued: 'You see, Aylmer knows so well how much the children are to me, and he would never ask me to leave them. There's no question of my ever leaving them. And Bruce wouldn't mind. Bruce would be only too thankful for me to take them. And there's another thing though I despised the idea at the time, there's a good deal in it.
I mean that Aylmer's well off, so I should never be a burden. He would love to take the responsibility of us all. I would leave my income to Bruce; he would be quite comfortable and independent. Oh, he would take it. He might be a little cross, but it wouldn't last, Landi. He would be better off.
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