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"But, my dear Luigia, I was your host, and even had I suspected what you now reveal to me, my duty as an honorable man would have commanded me to see nothing of it, and to take no advantage of you." "Ah! that is not the reason; it is simpler than that. You saw nothing because your fancy turned elsewhere." "Well, and if it were so?" "It ought not to be so," replied Luigia, vehemently.
As the song ended, Felicien Vernou and Lousteau went up to Sir Francis Drake and reproached him for wishing to take such a treasure from France, at the same time flattering him for his cleverness as an impresario. La Luigia then sang an air from the "Nina" of Paesiello; and in that the part being very dramatic she showed a talent for comedy second only to her vocal gift.
As for Signora Luigia, dressed in black, which was customary with her, and having had the good sense to reject the services of a coiffeur, she was royally beautiful. An air of melancholy gravity, expressed by her whole person, inspired a sentiment of respect which surprised the men who on Bixiou's invitation were there to judge of her.
"I saw that I was becoming an embarrassment in your new situation. What else could I do but release you from it?" "Who told you that you were an embarrassment to me? Have I ever said or intimated anything of the kind? Could I not speak to you, as I did, about your professional life without wounding so deeply your sensibility?" "People feel things as they feel them," replied Luigia.
"And the man to whom she introduced you?" "He an adventurer? No, I think not. At any rate, he did me a great service." "But he may have designs upon you." "Yes, people may have designs upon me," replied Luigia, with dignity, "but they cannot execute them: between those designs and me, there is myself." "But your reputation?" "That was lost before I left your house.
Sir Francis Drake is an Englishman, very bald, with a red nose, and long yellow teeth. He received me with cold politeness, and asked in very good French what my business was." "Did you propose to him Luigia?" "That was what I went for, in the character, be it understood, of a Swedish nobleman. He asked if her talent was known. 'Absolutely unknown, I replied.
'No matter; but, he added, 'is not this a trick of yours a plot concocted by you and Luigia to prevent me from leaving Padua? 'You mistake, Edoardo; I would wish rather to hasten your departure. 'I am very much obliged to you, replied Edoardo, half vexed. 'What do you mean? If you do not explain your words I shall be very angry.
We shall hear of each other; and from afar, as we pass in life, we can wave our hands in recognition, but nothing further." "So," said Sallenauve, sadly, "this is how it all ends!" La Luigia looked at him a moment, her eyes shining with tears. "Listen," she said in a resolute and sincere tone: "this is possible. I have loved you, and after you, no one can enter the heart you have despised.
First there was Carmel's mother, the Signora Greville, as she was generally called, a beautiful, sweet-looking lady, with her daughter's dark eyes, and the gracious stately manners of old Sicilian traditions. Then there were the children, Bertram, Nina, Vincent, and Luigia, the two first fair, like their English father, the younger ones taking after the Italian side of the family.
It gives an added meaning to the myth." "What is the story exactly?" asked Dulcie. "Do tell it, please!" "Yes, do!" begged all the children, crowding round Mr. Stacey. "We want to hear your English story!" "It's not an English one, but a very old Greek one. Shall we rest on this wall while I tell it? Luigia shall come on my knee.
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