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He has one hand on the lyre, and the other on his stomach, for the homage of the goddesses has made him somewhat sick; his eyes, you observe, are cast heavenwards, partly by reason of poetic inspiration, and partly by reason of nausea!" "Bravo! bravo, Manutoli!" cried a chorus of voices. "Envy and jealousy, envy and jealousy, all envy and jealousy.
You are disposed to think, then, that she would have given up the prize of all her scheming this marriage, which was to have given her everything in the world that she could desire, and more than she could have ever dreamed of attaining; she would have voluntarily relinquished all this, you think, for your sake?" "I'll tell you what it is, Manutoli.
"You may say what you will, Manutoli, I know what she was, poor girl, as well as you do better, a great deal; for, I tell you, that there was a real generosity in her nature. Look here," continued Ludovico; after a pause of a minute or two, "I would not say it to anybody else than you, or to you either, except under circumstances that make one wish to state the whole truth exactly as it was.
The disgrace and destruction of the noblest family in the province. The ending of a fine old name in infamy. Gracious heaven, it is too horrible to think of," exclaimed Manutoli, with much emotion. "It would kill the old Marchese as dead as a door-nail, for one thing," said another of the group of young men. "And serve him right too.
On which, instead of protesting her own innocence, she had strongly insisted on that of Ludovico, which seemed a very suspicious circumstance to the Baron Manutoli.
"I wonder whether she is as lovely as she is said to be?" said Manutoli, as they drove out beyond the crumbling and ivy-grown brick wall, which had helped to repel the attack of Odoacer the Goth; but which had, some thirteen hundred years ago, failed to keep out the mischief brought into the city by the comedian Empress Theodora, whose beauty had promoted her from the stage to the throne.
"By the way, Signor Barone, have you heard whether the medical report has been made yet? But I suppose the police would not let us know what the doctor's opinion was, if it had been made. Who knows who has been employed to examine the body?" "I know!" answered the Baron Manutoli, "the Professore Tomosarchi. And whatever can be found out by examining the body, he will find out, depend upon it.
And if the Marchese was minded to marry, it wasn't the murder of this poor girl that would stop him," said one of the others. "And that is a strong reason, as it strikes me, for thinking that Ludovico had nothing to do with it. He must have known, as well as we, that it was likely enough his uncle would find somebody else," remarked Manutoli. "Well, we shall see.
"When, according to your own account, she had been scheming all the time she has been here to bring it about?" said Manutoli, with arched eyebrows. "Yes, even so. She had never known how should she? that such a marriage would turn me out on the world a beggar; she had never known what sort and what degree of misery and ruin it would bring about to all parties." "And you told her this?"
And La Lalli is not at the beginning of her career. But what have we to do with all that! che diavolo! She is a great singer; she comes here to delight our ears, not our eyes!" "But time and work make havoc with the voice as well as with the face and figure, Signor Marchese!" said Manutoli.
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