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Updated: May 13, 2025
We shall have to substitute a duenna, or a chaperon, for the soubrette in our pieces for the present; it will be less pleasing of course, but still Mme. Leonarde here is a host in herself, and we shall manage to get on very nicely, I dare say." The chariot started on its way again as he spoke, at rather a better pace than the lumbering old ox-cart.
Leonarde had enveloped the body in an old piece of thick canvass still bearing traces of the foliage and garlands of flowers originally painted in bright colours upon it in which they had sewed it securely, so that it looked not unlike an Egyptian mummy.
Turning to him, what was her horror at seeing not Leonarde Da Vinci, as she had supposed, but Villani Brandini, a rejected suitor, and seeming friend to Da Vinci, who had discovered the plan of escape by some means, and revenged himself upon the lady in this manner.
At this moment appeared Leander and Scapin, who had heard of Zerbine's arrival from the servants, and came to pay their respects, soon followed by old Mme. Leonarde, who greeted the soubrette with as much obsequiousness as if she had-been a princess. Isabelle came also to welcome her, to the great delight of Zerbine, who was devotedly fond of her, and always trying to do something to please her.
"We must not forget that we can never be more than friends, Leonarde." "Never more than friends, Viola! Why do you not know that you are free?" "Free! What is it you mean?" "Is it possible you still believe yourself Brandini's wife?" "Believe myself! Am I not?" "No, my own dearest Viola! It was no priest who performed that ceremony.
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