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The plan of the patriotic party was, to unite the Venetian territories on the mainland with Lombardy, and to form of the whole one republic. The conduct of Ottolini exasperated the party inimical to Venice, and augmented the prevailing discontent.
"A great success. I took a few turns myself with Teresa Ottolini tra la la la la," and he swayed his head and shoulders to and fro as he hummed a waltz-tune. "You!" exclaimed the marchesa, staring at him with a look of contempt "you!" "Yes. Why not? I am as young as ever, dear marchesa eighty, the prime of life!"
If he marries Teresa Ottolini and it is said such a result is certain no palace in Lucca would be big enough to hold Teresa and the countess-mother at one time. This little habit, moreover, of separation from husbands does not damage the lady in the least; no one inquires what has happened, or who is in the wrong.
Luisa, who looks the picture of innocence, wears an unexceptionable pink dress, with a train that bodes ill-luck, and many apologies, to her partners. A long train is Luisa's little game. One enthusiast pinned his fragment to his shoulder, like an order a knight of San Luisa, he called himself. Teresa Ottolini, with her mother, has just arrived.
The type of the Lucchese nobleman is dark, short, and commonplace rustic is the word. There is the usual crowding in doorways, and appropriation of seats whence arrivals can be seen and criticised. But there is no line of melancholy young girls wanting partners. The gentlemen decidedly predominate, and all the ladies, except Teresa Ottolini and the Boccarini, are married.
"I mean to dance with Teresa Ottolini," announced Count Orsetti, timidly he could not name Teresa without reddening. "We arranged it together a month ago." "And I am engaged to Countess Navascoes," said Count Malatesta. This engagement was said to have begun some years back, and to be very enthralling.
The plan of the patriotic party was, to unite the Venetian territories on the mainland with Lombardy, and to form of the whole one republic. The conduct of Ottolini exasperated the party inimical to Venice, and augmented the prevailing discontent.
Lolling back in a chair near Baldassare, with his short legs crossed, and his thumbs stuck into the arm-holes of his coat, is Count Orsetti, smiling, fat, and innocuous. His mother has not yet decided when he is to speak the irrevocable words to Teresa Ottolini. Orsetti is far too dutiful a son to do so before she gives him permission.
I would fast for a week to ride once in such a carriage. Oh! I would give any thing to splash the mud in people's faces. She's a fine woman the Orsetti. Observe her light hair. Madonna mia! What a train of silk! Twelve shillings a yard not a penny less. She's got a cavaliere still. He! he! a cavaliere!" Carlotta grins, and winks her wicked old eyes. "She wants to marry her son to Teresa Ottolini.
Towards the end of March 1797 the Government of Venice was in a desperate state. Ottolini, the Podesta of Bergamo, an instrument of tyranny in the hands of the State inquisitors, then harassed the people of Bergamo and Brescia, who, after the reduction of Mantua, wished to be separated from Venice.
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