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"You are not a triumphant lover, certainly. What is the matter?" "You are very good to care," answered Nobili, sighing again, gazing into her face; "once I thought that my fate did touch you." "Yes, once," Nera rejoined. "Once long ago." She gave an airy laugh that grated on Nobili's ears. "But we meet so seldom." "True, true," he answered hurriedly, "too seldom." His manner was most constrained.
And Nobili had listened to Nera's cruel words, and had not risen up and torn out the lying tongue that uttered them! He had sat and heard Enrica torn to pieces as a panting dove is severed by a hawk limb by limb! Even now Nobili's better nature, spite of the glamour of this woman, told him he was a coward to listen to such words, but his good angel had veiled her wings and fled.
"Forgive me, love," he said, "I will be calmer. Lay your dear head against me. We will sit together here under the trees." "Yes," said Enrica in a faltering voice; "I have so much to say." Then, suddenly recalling the blessing of his presence, a smile stole about her bloodless lips. She gave a happy sigh. "Yes, Nobili we can talk now without fear. But I can talk only of you.
Not to succeed argued a want of skill. That maddened her. She was keen and hot upon the scent, knocking over her man as a sportsman does his bird, full in the breast. Her aim was marriage. Count Nobili would have suited her exactly. She had felt for him a warmth that rarely quickened her pulses. Nobili had evaded her. But revenge is sweet. Now his hour is come.
Other fishes the silurus, malapterurus, and so on are likewise endowed with electric batteries for stunning and capturing their prey. The action of the organs is still a mystery, as, indeed, is the whole subject of animal electricity. Nobili and Matteucci discovered that feeble currents are generated by the excitation of the nerves and the contraction of the muscles in the human subject.
He has taken in the whole situation Count Nobili in the middle of the floor flushed agitated furious at this interruption; Enrica revived conscious blushing at his side. The investigation is so perfectly satisfactory that Maestro Guglielmi cannot suppress a grin of delight.
"Enrica!" she starts back as Nobili pronounces her name, yet he speaks so softly the sound comes to her almost like a sigh "Enrica, do not fear me. I will say no word to offend you. I cannot go without asking your pardon. As one who loved you once as one who loves " He stops. What is he saying? "I humbly beseech you to forgive me. Enrica, let me hear you say that you forgive me."
Then in the evening, a grand gala reception at the Palazzo Castelmare, at which it was understood masks would be gladly welcomed by the host. On the night of the Tuesday, thirdly, the last great day of all, there was to be a grand masked ball at the Circolo dei Nobili; that ball of which and of its consequences on the Ash Wednesday morning, the reader already wots.
I have accepted Count Nobili's money; Count Nobili must accept my niece." "Your niece must nevertheless consent. I can permit no other arrangement. Then you have to find Count Nobili. He must voluntarily appear at the altar." Fra Pacifico turned his resolute face full upon the marchesa. Her whole attitude betrayed intense excitement.
His false smile gave place to a sardonic grin, as he watched Nobili marked his well-set, muscular figure, his easy movements, the graceful curve of his head and neck, his delicate, regular features, his sunny complexion. But Nobili's face without a smile was shorn of its chief charm: that smile, so bright in itself, brought brightness to others.
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