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She went out early, in the heat of midday, a time that fitted best with the involved schedule of the Sanvianos' single equipage Anna would take her sister directly from a luncheon at the Ginoris'. Lavinia looked with mingled anticipation and relief at the approaching graceful facade added scarcely a hundred and fifty years before to the otherwise somber abode of the Mantegazzas, first established in the twelfth century.
She went to a rather needless extreme to demonstrate that she conducted herself from a sense of duty and propriety alone. Her married life, she assured herself, already resembled the Mantegazzas', whose indifferent courtesy she had marked and wondered at. Perhaps in time, like them, she would grow accustomed to it; but now it took all her determination to maintain the smallest daily amenities.
She must marry as soon as possible." "Thank God, there's Cesare Orsi!" her husband responded. Lavinia was gazing inward at the secretly enshrined image of the Flower of Spain. Gheta Sanviano often passed a night at the Mantegazzas' villa on the Height of Castena, a long mile from the city.
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