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Updated: July 5, 2025
Now I dare give a pleasant, kindly welcome, to Count Ranuzi, and be ready at all times to serve him gladly." Ranuzi looked steadily at her. "Will you truly do this?" said he, sighing "will you interest yourself for a poor prisoner, who has no one to hear and sympathize in his sorrows?" Louise gave him her hand.
The princess made no reply; she stepped to her desk and took from it several rolls of gold, then seated herself and wrote with a swift hand: "You must trust the bearer fully, he is my friend; assist him in all that he undertakes." She folded the paper and sealed it. Ranuzi followed every movement with flashing eyes and loudly beating heart.
Perhaps to the echo of his step in the silent, isolated street; perhaps to the memories which, like croaking birds of death, hovered over her head, as if to lacerate and destroy even her dead happiness; perhaps she listened to those whispering voices which resounded in her breast and accused Ranuzi of faithlessness and treachery. And was he, then, really guilty?
"I suspected so," said Ranuzi, with his accustomed calm and quiet manner, "therefore I anticipated you. The right is certainly on the side of Baron Marshal, and in offering myself as his second. I do so in the name of all the Austrian officers who are present. They have all seen the events of this evening with painful indignation.
He took his hat, and, bowing to the gentlemen, left the room hastily. Count Ranuzi gazed after the Russian with a mocking smile. "Do you know, Belleville, where he is going?" "He has not told us, but I guess it. He is going to approach this fortune-teller, and give her a sign that her zeal has carried her too far, and that, if not more prudent, she will betray herself."
She laughed merrily, and drew Marietta dancing forward. "Now I have company, we will laugh and be happy." "Who is in the saloon?" said Marietta, "and why are you banished to-day?" "Well, because of this Italian count this insufferable Ranuzi. He has been here for an hour, and mamma commanded no one to be admitted, as she had important business with the count."
I must, I will fly to him, when the door opened and you entered and I saw you, my own beloved; I heard your dear voice, and never did one of God's poor creatures fall into a happier insensibility than I in that rapturous moment." "And Taliazuchi stood by and smiled!" said Ranuzi, laughing; "it was truly a pretty scene for an opera writer.
He came forward with such a joyous greeting, that she was flattered, and gave him her hand with a gracious smile. She said triumphantly to herself that the power of her charms was not subdued, since the handsome and much admired Ranuzi was surely captivated by them.
I do not reproach you, my anaconda, but I pray you to tell me one thing; did you send the last letters which I gave you to the post?" "No," she replied, compelling her eyes, with a mighty effort, to meet his. "Wretch! What did you do with them." "I sent them to the King of Prussia." Ranuzi uttered a shriek, and fell back a step.
"Oh, I beseech you to read it to us," said the Frenchman, somewhat impatiently; then, turning graciously to the third gentleman who sat silent and indifferent near him, he added: "We must first ascertain, however, if our kind host, Monsieur le Comte di Ranuzi, consents to the reading."
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