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Updated: June 21, 2025
But if you can really restore my father, and by nobler means, you may save me for " Violante stopped abruptly; the marchesa's eyes sparkled. "Save you for ah! I can guess what you leave unsaid. But come, come! more strangers, see; you shall tell me all at my own house. And if you can make one sacrifice, why, I will save you all else. Come, or farewell forever!"
He paused motionless in the open doorway, his eyes, from which the tears were streaming, fixed on Enrica the fatal letter in his hand. At length he tore himself away, closed the door, and, crossing the sala, knocked at the door of the marchesa's apartment.
What do you say to that, Signora Marchesa?" asked the misguided young man, with unconscious self-satisfaction. If a mine had sprung under the marchesa's feet, she could not have been more horrified.
When Audley Egerton first noticed my growing intimacy with you, he said, with his usual dryness of counsel, 'Randal, I do not ask you to discontinue acquaintance with Madame di Negra, for an acquaintance with women like her forms the manners, and refines the intellect; but charming women are dangerous, and Madame di Negra is a charming woman." The marchesa's face flushed.
"But the matter has been brought to a crisis by the accidental burning of the marchesa's house at Corellia. I was present I saved her niece." "I thought it was rather sudden," says Orazio, from behind, in a tone full of suggestion. "We were in doubt, before you came, to whom the lady was engaged." Nobili starts. "What do you mean?" he asks, hastily.
Sliding at last from these general topics into very well-bred and elegant personal compliment, and reciting various eulogies, which Lord this and the Duke of that had passed on the marchesa's charms, Randal laid his hand on hers, with the license of admitted friendship, and said,
When Audley Egerton first noticed my growing intimacy with you, he said, with his usual dryness of counsel, 'Randal, I do not ask you to discontinue acquaintance with Madame di Negra, for an acquaintance with women like her forms the manners, and refines the intellect; but charming women are dangerous, and Madame di Negra is a charming woman." The marchesa's face flushed.
He did venture to ask her if she would be present next evening, if he joined the marchesa's rubber? Before she could reply, Trenta had hastily answered for her, that "he would settle all that with the count when they met in the morning." So, standing in the street, they parted. Count Marescotti sought in vain for one last glance from Enrica.
She starts up, and is rushing upon Enrica, who stands motionless before her, when Trenta steps forward, puts his hand firmly on the marchesa's arm, and draws her back. "You have called Enrica here," he whispers, "to question her. Do so do so.
Good heavens! can you think so poorly of me? But as to the marchesa's affections," continued Frank, with a faltering voice, "do you really and honestly believe that they are to be won by me?"
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