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"He is as proud as a marble lion, and as obstinate as a Lombardy mule," explained Nella, with fine imagery. "If that is not enough to make one dislike a young man, you shall tell me so! But one of those days he will fall. There is trouble for the proud." "How does his great pride show itself?" asked Marietta. "I have not noticed it."
Tornato adunque l'Ammiraglio dallo scoprimento di Cuba and di Giamaica, tornò nella Spagnuola Bartolomeo Colon suo fratello, quello, che era gi
For Aribert would have to occupy his nephew's throne, and he felt instinctively that nature had not cut him out for a throne. By a natural impulse he inwardly rebelled against the prospect of monarchy. Monarchy meant so much for which he knew himself to be entirely unfitted. It meant a political marriage, which means a forced marriage, a union against inclination. And then what of Nella Nella!
"What?" asked the young girl carelessly. "That you are to be married." "I hope so," answered Marietta. "Some day, but there is time yet perhaps a very long time." "As long as it will take to make a wedding gown embroidered with gold and pearls. Not a day longer than that." Nella looked very wise and watched her mistress's face. "What do you mean?" "The master has ordered just such a gown.
The motion of the cradle was the smooth rolling of the vessel; the beat was the beat of its screw; the strange colours were the cloud tints thrown by the sun as it rose over a distant and receding shore in the wake of the yacht; her mother's lullaby was the crooned song of the man at the wheel. Nella all through her life had had many experiences of yachting.
She smiled at him. 'You kissed me, she said suddenly, and he blushed red and stood up before her. 'Why did you kiss me? 'Ah! Miss Racksole, he murmured, hurrying the words out. 'Forgive me. It is unforgivable, but forgive me. I was overpowered by my feelings. I did not know what I was doing. 'Why did you kiss me? she repeated. 'Because Nella! I love you. I have no right to say it.
Marietta did not even answer this, which Nella thought very unkind of her. From the main staircase Marietta turned off at the first landing, and went down a short corridor to the back stairs of the house, which led to the narrow lane beside the building.
"You see!" cried Marietta triumphantly. "Nella knows all about it." "I was going to tell you this morning," said her father in a tone of annoyance. "By my faith, one can keep nothing secret! One cannot even give you a surprise." "Nella knows everything," returned the girl, sitting on the corner of the table and looking from her father to Zorzi.
But for Pasquale's reassuring words, Marietta felt that she must have gone mad. Zorzi was safe, somewhere, and he was not in the Governor's prison, on the straw. She told herself so again and again as Nella went on. "There is one thing I did not tell you," said the latter, with a sudden increase of vigour at the thought. "I think you have told me enough, Nella," said Marietta wearily.
"If I caught any one using my boat without my leave, I would make him pay dear," said Beroviero, but without anger, as if he were stating a general truth. "Whoever it was who took the boat brought it back an hour after midnight, locked the padlock again and went away," said Marietta. "Tell Nella that I am much indebted to her for her watchfulness. She is as good as a house-dog.