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"I spoke not of your being early on my account, daughter. If you come here at sunrise, you will find the gate open, and me where you found me this morning; and if you come at midnight you will find the same." "At midnight, father!" said Paolina, with a glance of surprise and pity.

The entire conception reveals that masterly ability to portray the human figure in every attitude of fear or passion. A hundred years after the picture was painted, some dignitary took it into his head that portions of the work were too "daring"; and a painter was set at work robing the figures. His fussy attempts are quite apparent. Michelangelo's next work was to decorate the Paolina Chapel.

He was not a man who would have counselled or desired his friend to behave badly or unworthily to Paolina or to any woman; for he was a man of honour and a gentleman.

It was important to the Diva to flatter and make a friend of so powerful a theatrical patron as the Marchese; and she took this very objectionable method, Paolina thought, of attaining that end. Paolina thought nothing more than this; but, nevertheless, it made her conceive a dislike for the Diva greater, perhaps, than the cause would seem to justify.

For Ludovico, who had raised the sheet that covered the features of the dead, and had, of course, become on the instant aware of the truth, had fallen into unconsciousness, without uttering a word beyond the one agonized outcry that, for the moment, had left little doubt on the mind of the lawyer that the victim at their feet was the girl Paolina.

On turning into the shady promenade under the city walls, a little before reaching the Porta Nuova, Paolina had strolled onwards, before sitting down on one of the benches that tempted her after her walk, till she fancied that it would be shorter for her to reach the Via di Santa Eufemia by another gate, which gave admission to the city at the other end of the promenade, instead of by turning back to the Porta Nuova.

It is certain that the Conte Leandro passed out of the city by the Porta Nuova at a very early hour this morning at an earlier hour than either the girl Paolina or the Marchesino and La Bianca." "The Conte Leandro out of the Porta Nuova at such an hour in the morning. For what possible purpose?" "Ay, that is the question. For what possible purpose? But the fact is certain.

She was put to death by some means which scarcely allowed her time to wake from the sleep," returned the lawyer. "You are going, then, now, Signor Barone, to see this Paolina?" "Yes; if I find her still up, which I suppose I shall, for it is not late," said Manutoli, looking at his watch. "Better be a little cautious in speaking to her, you know; best to avoid alarming her," said Fortini.

"Yet you live here, from year's end to year's end all alone, Padre mio," said Paolina, timidly. "Not quite so, daughter," replied he. "Brother Barnaba, a lay brother of our order, is my companion. But he is ill with a touch of ague at present." "And how early would it be not inconvenient to you, Padre mio, to open the church for me?" asked Paolina.

"Yes, Signorina, I have so heard," said Paolina, raising her head with a proud movement, and looking, with well-opened eyes and clear brow, into Violante's face as she spoke. "I have heard that it was intended by both your families that you and the Marchese Ludovico should be married." "Yes; everybody in Ravenna, I believe, expects to see such a marriage before long; do you?