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No; her only choice lay between accepting Madame Bernard's offer, and presenting herself as a candidate for charity at one of the two convents her father had protected. Afterwards, a year hence or more, when she should be married to Giovanni Severi, she would find some means of amply repaying the generous woman, without hurting her feelings.
It filled the little sitting-room with light and colour, as a Titian might have done; it was as intensely alive as Giovanni Severi had been the eyes were full of those quick little coruscations of fire that had made them so unlike those of other men, the impulsive nostrils seemed to quiver, the healthy young blood seemed to come and go in the tanned cheeks, the square shoulders were just ready to make that quick, impatient little movement that had been so characteristic of him, so like the sudden tension of every muscle when a thoroughbred scents sport or danger.
In spite of his stiff grammar, however, Severi managed to write things that brought the colour to her face and the light to her eyes.
'And in the same hope? Ah no, Angela! That is where it all breaks down! 'No. You will live to believe it is there that all begins. Now let me go. Severi shook his head sadly; she was so unapproachably good, he thought what chance had a mere man like himself of really understanding her splendid, saintly delusion?
Temptation is not sin, but it is wrong to expose oneself to it willingly, except for a purpose so high as to justify the risk. Sister Giovanna quietly resolved that she would never see Severi again, and she judged that the surest way of abiding by her resolution was to join the mission to the Far East and leave Italy for ever.
She also went out to the lodge, to warn the portress that Captain Severi was expected, and must not be kept waiting even a few seconds longer than was necessary. The excellent Anna looked up with some surprise, for she had never kept any one waiting without good cause, since she had been in charge of the gate, but she bent her head obediently and said nothing.
It was she who tempted you to bring me here by a trick you are ashamed of already; it was she that made me weak, just now; but she is not the woman you love, she is not Angela, she is not worthy of you; and as for me, I hate her, with all my soul! Severi had said truly that he could not understand, and instead of responding to her appeal, he turned impatient again.
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