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But meanwhile she will have the consolation of doing all she can for him, and the hope of helping him to recover; vain hope as it may be, there is a divine unselfishness in it. For she says that if he is restored to health she will go away at once and never let him know she is his wife." Rivardi's handsome face expressed utter incredulity. "Will she keep her word I wonder?" "She will!"
Rivardi's eyes dwelt on her with greater tenderness than he had ever felt before, she looked so frail and fairy-like, and withal so solitary. He took her little hand and gently kissed it with courteous reverence. "Then after all you have known love!" he said in a low voice "You have felt what it is, though you have assumed to despise it?"
As she sat at the head of her daintily adorned dinner-table she might have posed for a fairy queen in days when fairies were still believed in and queens were envied, and Giulio Rivardi's thoughts were swept to and fro in his brain by cross-currents of emotion which were not altogether disinterested or virtuous.
You ARE small, physically" said Don Aloysius Do you mind that? Small things are always sweetest!" She flushed, and turned her head away as she caught the Marchese Rivardi's eyes fixed upon her. "You should not make pretty compliments to a woman, reverend father!" she said, lightly "It is not your vocation!" His grave face brightened and he laughed with real heartiness.
I am glad that we have made this voyage safely so far but I shall be still more glad when we return to Sicily!" Morgana laughed. "We can do that to-morrow, I dare say!" she said; "If there is nothing to see in the whole expanse of the desert but dark emptiness" "But what do you expect to see, Madama?" enquired Gaspard, with lively curiosity. She laughed again as she met Rivardi's keen glance.
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