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Harriet continued to move about for perhaps half an hour before Nina's odd manner recurred to her, on a wave of memory, and she seemed to hear again Nina's ungracious tone. "He told her!" she said, suddenly. "She saw Royal, and he told her! Poor child "
Indeed, so far as Nina's observation could penetrate, the general impression of the average Americo-Italian marriage was of sympathetic comradeship between husband and wife; in nearly every household she had found the indescribably charming atmosphere of a harmonious home.
Nina could only answer him by caressing his hand, and by making internal oaths that her very best should be done in every moment of her life to make him contented with the lot he had chosen. There remains very little of the tale to be told nothing, indeed, of Nina's tale and very little to be explained.
But he made me think a great deal about Vera. He talked often so much. He thought that I ought to look after her more, and I explained that that wasn't my right. "The truth is that ever since Nina's birthday-party I had been anxious. I knew really that everything was right. Vera is of course the soul of honour but something had occurred then which made me.... "Well, well, that doesn't matter now.
"She is standing this way, and, by the manner in which her sails rise from the water, she is making rapid progress towards us," murmured the pirate, speaking to himself rather than answering Nina's question. "Ah! I know her now; and long ere we can reach the shore she will be upon us. Well, we will strive to the last. Fate may, for this once, favour us.
It would take place in the chapel of San Gennaro, adjoining the cathedral. We were married there before! During the time that intervened, Nina's manner was somewhat singular. To me she was often timid, and sometimes half conciliatory. Now and then I caught her large dark eyes fixed on me with a startled, anxious look, but this expression soon passed away.
Then slowly she made answer: "No, he is not. I think he has begun to realize that the battle is not always to the strong." Struck by something in her tone, Archie glanced at her again. "Jove!" he suddenly said. "How you hate him!" The words were out almost before he knew it. Nina's face changed instantly. But Archie's contrition was as swift.
He told her how it held men slaves of its charm for a lifetime, and then, regardless of their devotion, swallowed them up, angry at their fear of its mystery, which it would never disclose, not even to those that loved it most. While he talked, Nina's head had been gradually sinking lower, and her face almost touched his now.
His action pierced straight through her pride to something that sheltered behind it, and inflicted a grevious wound. "Jove! Here's a crush!" laughed Archie Neville. "Delighted to meet you again, Mrs. Wingarde! How did you find the Lakes?" His good-looking, boyish face was full of pleasure. He had not expected to meet her. Nina's welcoming smile was radiant.
Nina found herself congealing; instead of answering, she handed the contessa her tea, and expressed a hope that she had not put in too much cream. Taking no notice of Nina's evasion, the contessa, talking indiscriminately about people, arrived finally at the subject of Giovanni. In her opinion, the Marchese di Valdo ought to marry money!
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