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It goes in exactly the opposite direction, southwards, to Cervia. The Venice road lies away to the northward, through the wood that you can see on the furthest horizon. It was by that road I came to Ravenna. I shall never travel it again." "From Venice, father? Did you come from Venice?" asked Paolina, eagerly. "From La bella Venezia I came, daughter fourteen years ago.
"But, Signora, you forget that the marriage between us was proposed before I ever saw or heard of Paolina," said Ludovico, with a naivete that should certainly have satisfied his companion that he was no longer attempting to shape his discourse according to the rules of conventional gallantry. Violante, despite her gravity, could not forbear smiling, as she said in reply: "Not at all, Signor.
"Paolina you see I know your name, and I think it such a pretty one Paolina," said the Contessa Violante, yielding to a sudden impulse, and taking the hand of the blushing girl, who kept her eyes fixed on the ground, "shall we be friends, and speak openly to each other? I should like to." "Oh, Signorina! so should I, so much.
But he troubled himself little to account for this, or to question the reason of the goods the gods provided him. It was not in his character to do so. Paolina, on her side, was, upon the whole, trustful and contented. Yet there had been moments at which she had suffered a passing pang from little gossipings which had been, perhaps injudiciously, repeated to her by Orsola Steno.
His former speech had received no reply whatsoever. "I think I had better do what my uncle has told me to do, Leandro," said the Marchese Ludovico, drily. And Paolina felt sufficiently grateful to him for the amount of snubbing contained in his accent to say the first words she had spoken since they entered the room. "We shall be exceedingly obliged to you, Signore, if you will do so.
They are going towards Cervia." "No! See, father! They are turning off from the road to the left. Where does that turning to the left go?" "Only into the forest, daughter, or to that little farm-house you see there just at the edge of it. You may get as far as the sea- shore through the Pineta; but the road is very bad for a carriage." "To the sea-shorn!" said Paolina, dreamily.
On the Thursday, we went to see the Pope convey the Sacrament from the Sistine chapel, to deposit it in the Capella Paolina, another chapel in the Vatican; a ceremony emblematical of the entombment of the Saviour before His Resurrection.
No doubt her imagination had been fired, and her heart awakened to long for such love as she had seen given to each other by Ludovico and Paolina, which she too well understood to be of a kind which, despite her good resolutions, would not be found in her union with the Marchese Lamberto.
But he did not venture to say any word on the subject; and the Marchese took leave of him, merely saying that he would not forget to act on Signor Ercole's caution when he should see his nephew the next morning. Paolina Foscarelli
And the consequence of it is to be that we two are both to be broken-hearted, to condemn ourselves to pass loveless lives, to give each other up, see each other no more, make all the future a blank to both of us. Good God, Paolina! You cannot mean that!"
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