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"But answer my question," insisted Orsetti, who, as an avowed suitor of Lucca maidens had their honor and good name at heart. "Don't be a fool, but tell me what you know. This idle story, involving the reputation of a young girl, is shameful. I protest against it!" "Do you?" sneered Orazio, leaning back, and pulling at his sandy mustache. "That is because you know nothing about it.
He had clean forgotten his feud with the Marchesa Guinigi, or only remembered it as a possible obstacle to his union with Enrica; otherwise the marchesa was absolutely indifferent to him. Up to the night of the Orsetti ball the whole world was indifferent to him. But now! Nobili, sitting very still, his face shaded by his hand, had finished his cigar.
Forward! forward!" to a timid couple, to whom the intricacies of the figure were evidently distracting. "Belle donne! belle donne! Victory to the brave! Fear nothing. Orsetti, keep the circle down there; you are out of your place.
Again Nobili glances round; this time there is the shadow of a frown upon his smooth brow. Orsetti feels that he must speak. "Have you known the lady long?" Orsetti asks, with an embarrassment foreign to him. "Yes, and no," answers Nobili, reddening, and scanning the veiled expression on Orsetti's face with intense curiosity.
I entreat you, Orsetti, as man to man, tell me whose name has been coupled with that of my affianced wife? That it is a lie I know beforehand a base and palpable lie! She has been reared at home in perfect solitude." Nobili spoke with passionate vehemence. The hot blood rushed over his face and neck, and tingled to his very fingers.
Yes, Marescotti that is the very man Enrica had mentioned to him under the trees at Corellia. Each letter of it blazes in fire before his eyes. Yes she had said Marescotti had read her eyes. "O God!" and Nobili groans aloud, and buries his face within his hands. "You take this too much to heart, my dear Mario," Count Orsetti said; "indeed you do, else I would not say so.
"You will believe me another time. You know I told you and Orsetti that Nera Boccarini and Nobili understood each other. He's desperately in love with her." "I don't believe it, all the same," answers Malatesta, shaking his head. "A man can't half kill a girl and show no compunction specially not Nobili the best-hearted fellow breathing.
The color has left his cheeks; his blue eyes grow dark. "There has been some foolish gossip from persons who know nothing," Orsetti answers, advancing to the front. "About some engagement with another gentleman, whom she had accepted " "Nonsense! Don't listen to him, my good fellow," breaks in Ruspoli. "These lads have nothing to do but to breed scandal.
Why cannot he grin and bear it? others do. But to return to Teresa. She is courtesying very low to the Countess Orsetti. Although it is well known that these ladies hate each other, Countess Orsetti receives Teresa with a special welcome, kisses her on both cheeks, addresses more compliments to her, and makes her more courtesies than to any one else.
The Orsetti Palace, a huge square edifice of reddish-gray stone, with overtopping roof, four tiers of lofty windows, and a broad arched entrance, or portone, with dark-green doors, stands in the street of San Michele. On the evening of the ball the entire street of San Michele was hung with Chinese lanterns, arranged in festoons. Opposite the entrance shone a gigantic star of gas.
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