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"What parcel of nonsense have you got into your little brains, Paolina? Sing at the Marchese? Of course they all do; of course they all know that his suffrage is of more importance to them than all the rest of the theatre put together. But as for my idea of lo zio- -of all men in the world. Ha, ha, ha!
Paolina was as thoroughly and essentially modest and innocent a girl as ever breathed; but she was so "by the grace of God," from natural idiosyncrasy and instinctive purity of heart, that is to say, rather than from teaching of any kind, or from any knowledge of good or evil.
Don Ferrante and Sigismondo led her by the hands; when the train set forth a body of musicians stationed on the steps of S. Peter's began to play. The Pope, on the throne in the Sala Paolina, surrounded by thirteen cardinals and his son Cæsar, awaited her. Among the foreign representatives present were the ambassadors of France, Spain, and Venice; the German envoy was absent.
Still I can't quite think that the Marchese would look at any one of the fiddles quite as I saw him look at her," said Paolina. And then the immense interval, which occurs between one act and another in Italian theatres, and which is tolerated with perfect contentment by Italian audiences, came to an end; and Ludovico hurried down to take his place again in the Castelmare box.
"It is a very short distance, daughter. There is a footpath practicable in dry weather like this, a good deal nearer than the road we saw the bagarino follow. You might get to the edge of the Pineta in that way in less than ten minutes." "And would it be possible to return to the city that way, instead of coming back to the road?" enquired Paolina.
"Was there anything to show how she that is, I mean, whether she died by violence?" asked Paolina. "Nothing nothing whatever. As we saw the body under the city gateway, when the men who found it brought it in, there was not the smallest trace of violence visible. She lay as if, save for the deadly pallor of her face, she might have been still sleeping.
"I learned something yesterday," said the Commissary, "which all looks the same way, not much, but in such a case every little helps. This old friar this Padre Fabiano is, we know, a Venetian; and now I have ascertained that, years ago, before he came here, there was some connection of some sort acquaintance, friendship of whatever kind you like between him and the parents of the girl Paolina.
But the same idea that occurred to you just now, that Paolina might not have liked to see me driving with La Bianca, has suggested itself to some other wiseacre, I beg your pardon, Manutoli, and it seems that an absurd notion a notion the monstrous absurdity of which is a matter of amazement to me has been engendered that my poor Paolina may have been the perpetrator of the crime. The idea!
Not thus have done Brother Andrea of Lucca, nor Brother Paolina, those great servants of God, old men and far from well, who have lived such a long time in their peace: but at once, with all their weariness and disabilities they put themselves on the road, and have come, and fulfilled their obedience: and although desire constrains them to return to their cells, they are not therefore willing to throw off the yoke, but say: "What I have said, be it unsaid!" disregarding their self-will and their personal consolations.
In the letters and poems of this period we note the endeavour to attain to a style in literature full of rich conceits and elaborate compliment, which may be compared to the style, elaborate and ornamental, but somewhat cold and unattractive, of the frescoes in the Cappella Paolina. As he grew older he devoted himself more entirely to architecture and literature.
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