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Updated: June 22, 2025
"You are prepared, then," pursued Brigida, smiling, "to give a reward of two hundred scudi to any one able to tell you who the woman is who wore the yellow mask at the Marquis Melani's ball, and how she contrived to personate the face and figure of the late Countess d'Ascoli?" "Of course we are prepared," answered D'Arbino, a little irritably.
"And suppose I only ask you in return to put on a fine dress and serve refreshments in a beautiful room to the company at the Marquis Melani's grand ball? What should you say to that?" Nanina said nothing. She drew back a step or two, and looked more bewildered than before. "You must have heard of the ball," said the steward, pompously; "the poorest people in Pisa have heard of it.
I don't wish to threaten but money I must have. I mention the sum of two hundred scudi, because that is the exact amount offered in the public handbills by Count Fabio's friends for the discovery of the woman who wore the yellow mask at the Marquis Melani's ball.
"His wife was buried in the Campo Santo." Of all the persons who had been present, in any capacity, at the Marquis Melani's ball, the earliest riser on the morning after it was Nanina. The agitation produced by the strange events in which she had been concerned destroyed the very idea of sleep.
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