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At the end of ten or twelve rooms, each gloomy, yet over-rich with architectural adornments and modern elaboration, two lackeys lifted the hangings covering the last doorway, and announced: "Sua Eccellenza la Principessa Sansevero!" "Messa Randolph." The Duchess Scorpa was very gracious to the American heiress.
Yet many a lean and swarthy fellow there would have felt that he was cheated if besides his money he had not carried home daily the remembrance of that tall dark lady's face and kindly eyes and encouraging voice, and they used to watch for the coming of the "gran principessa" as anxiously as they expected the coming of the steward with the money-bags on a Saturday evening.
"Excuse me, principessa" he hesitated, with a glance at me and another at his comrades "but these two, with the litter, will have their hands full; and this prisoner is a strong one and artful. Has he not already slain 'l Verru?" "You will mind your own business, Marc'antonio, which is to run, as I tell you."
Then the shopman, for Charlotte, momentously broke silence. "You've seen, disgraziatamente, signora principessa," he sadly said, "too much" and it made the Prince face about. For the effect of the momentous came, if not from the sense, from the sound of his words; which was that of the suddenest, sharpest Italian.
"It is agreed, then, that to-morrow we depart for Florence as the Principessa di Monte Bianca and suite?" Tears began to fill Kitty's eyes. To have everything spoiled like this! La Signorina would land them all in prison. "There's a legal side to it," Smith advanced cautiously. "The law may not see the jest from your point of view."
This is a four-page paper; and as it is set in long primer leaded and has a page of advertisements, there is no room for the crimes, disasters, and general sweepings of the outside world thanks be! Today I find only a single importation of the off-color sort: Una Principessa che fugge con un cocchiere Il MATIN ha da Berlino che la principessa Schovenbare-Waldenbure scomparve il 9 novembre.
Lionardo gravely saluted her as she went rosy out. He had seen the Virgin in the lap of Saint Anne and cared no more for the poor original. "Dear Lionardo," said the girl in the chair to the most learned man of her day, "you shall do me the favour to write a letter in Latin to a certain English lord, Messer Gregorio Dras, Marinajo, Londra." "Principessa," said the great man, "I am ready.
And he says he does not think it half so much that a woman should be accomplished herself, as that she should be able to appreciate other people's talents and once he said the Principessa Bianca di Moretti would be very much disappointed. 'Well, my dear, said Albinia, kindly putting her arm round Lucy's waist, 'perhaps by themselves the things did not so much require to be told.
"Signora Principessa," he said in his usual tone, "those are arguments which may be used with propriety by the persons who will defend the accused before the tribunals " Giovanni laughed in his face. "Do you suppose, seriously, that Donna Faustina will ever be brought to trial?" he asked scornfully. The prefect kept his temper wonderfully well. "It is my business to suppose so," he answered.
Giovanni relinquished the contest reluctantly, seeing that he was altogether overmatched by the prefect's soldiers. "I will go too," he said. "You cannot object to our taking Donna Faustina in our carriage." "I do not object to that. But male visitors are not allowed inside the Termini prison after dark. The Signora Principessa may spend the night there if it is her pleasure.
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