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Updated: June 20, 2025
It happened that Countess d'Isorella did not come. Luigi, in despair, was the hearer of a quick question and answer dialogue, in the obscure German tongue, between Anna von Lenkenstein and Irma di Karski; but a happy peep between the hanging curtains gave him sight of a letter passing from Anna's hands to Irma's. Anna quitted her.
What perchance had stricken Lena? He guessed; and guessed it rightly. A folded scrap of paper signed by the Countess of Lenkenstein was brought to him. It said: "Are you making common cause with the rebels? Reply. One asks who should be told." He wrote: "I am an outcast of the army. I fight as a volunteer with the K. K. troops. Could I abandon them in their peril?"
Anna and Lena were aware of Vittoria's residence in Milan, through the interchange of visits between the Countess of Lenkenstein and her sister Signora Piaveni. They heard also of Vittoria's prospective and approaching marriage to Count Ammiani.
Then Count Lenkenstein sent for his wife, whom Anna and Lena accompanied. "How many persons are you going to ruin in the course of your crusade, my dear?" the duchess said to Laura. "Dearest, I am penitent when I succeed," said Laura. "If that young man has been assisting you, he is irretrievably ruined." "I am truly sorry for him."
Like those who have become passive, she read faces the duchess's imploring looks thrown from time to time to the Lenkenstein ladies, Wilfrid's oppressed forehead, the resolute neutrality of the countess and she was not only incapable of seconding Laura's aggressive war, but shrank from the involvement and sickened at the indelicacy.
"A conversation between Countess Anna of Lenkenstein and a Major Nagen, in the Duchess of Graatli's house, was overheard by our Beppo. They spoke German. The rascal had a German sweetheart with him. She imprisoned him for some trespass, and had come stealing in to rescue him, when those two entered the room. Countess Anna detailed to Nagen the course of your recent plotting.
He wanted peace; but as he also wanted Countess Anna of Lenkenstein and her estates, it may possibly be remarked of him that what he wanted he did not want to pay for. At this period Wilfrid had resumed the Austrian uniform as a common soldier in the ranks of the Kinsky regiment.
He had witnessed the transfer of the crippled man from one carriage to another, and had raised shouts and given hue and cry, but the intervention of the storm had stopped his pursuit. He was proceeding to say what his suppositions were. Count Lenkenstein lifted his finger for Wilfrid to follow him out of the room. Count Serabiglione went at their heels.
'Von Lenkenstein; but I choose to be further deaf. 'To the devil, sir. Do you pretend to be angry? cried Weisspriess. 'The devil, sir, with your recommendation, is too black for me to visit him, Antonio-Pericles rejoined. 'By heaven, Pericles, for less than what you allow yourself to say, I've sent men to him howling! They faced one another, pulling at their moustachios. Weisspriess laughed.
You can do just what you like with him make an Italian of him; make him renounce his engagement to this pert little Lena of Lenkenstein, break his sword, play Arlecchino, do what you please. He is not required for any outrageous performance. A week, and Angelo will have recovered his strength; you likewise may resume the statuesque demeanour which you have been exhibiting here.
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