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Meanwhile, Angela Sovrani was detained in her studio by the fascinating company and bewildering chatter of a charming and very well-known personage in Europe, a dainty, exquisitely dressed piece of femininity with the figure of a sylph and the complexion of a Romney "Lady Hamilton," the Comtesse Sylvie Hermenstein, an Austro- Hungarian of the prettiest and most bewitching type, who being a thorough bohemienne in spirit, and having a large fortune at her disposal, travelled everywhere, saw everything, and spent great sums of money not only in amusing herself, but in doing good wherever she went.
To escape that power you would have, as the Scripture says, to 'take the wings of the morning and fly into the uttermost parts of the sea. Think well! the fame and reputation of Angela Sovrani can be ruined at my command, and equally, the sanctity and position of her uncle, Cardinal Bonpre!"
"That is your creed, I know," said Angela Sovrani with a faint sigh, "But it is a depressing and a wretched one." "I do not find it so," responded the Abbe, complacently looking at a fine diamond ring that glittered on the little finger of his plump white hand, "It is a creed which impresses upon us the virtue of being happy during the present moment, no matter what the next may bring.
Low beetling brows, a sensual, cruel mouth with a loosely projecting under-lip, eyes that appeared to be furtively watching each other across the thin bridge of nose, a receding chin and a narrow cranium, combined with an expression which was hypocritically humble, yet sly, this was the type Angela Sovrani had chosen to delineate, sparing nothing, softening no line, and introducing no redeeming point, a type mercilessly true to the life; the face of a priest, "A servant of Christ," as she called him.
Meanwhile, Angela Sovrani, rather bewildered by her friend's swift departure, was left alone to face the Marquis, who entered almost on the heels of the servant who announced him, and in one swift survey of the studio saw that the object of his search was not there.
Callistus, to see the illumination of the tomb of St. Cecilia, which takes place there annually on the Saint's Feast- Day, and he knew that Angela Sovrani and the Comtesse Hermenstein were to be of the Princesse's party. He was somewhat late in starting, and hired a fiacre to drive him along the Via Appia to his destination, but when he arrived there Mass had already commenced.
At this very moment I can place my hand on Florian Varillo, concerning whom there is a rumour that he attempted the assassination of his betrothed wife, an inhuman deed that no sane man could ever have perpetrated" here Sylvie uttered a slight exclamation, and he paused, looking at her with a cold smile "Yes, I repeat it! a deed WHICH NO SANE MAN COULD HAVE PERPETRATED! The unfortunate, the deeply wronged Florian Varillo, is prepared to swear, and I AM PREPARED TO SWEAR WITH HIM, that he is guiltless of any such vile act or treachery and also that he painted more than half of the great picture this woman Sovrani claims as her own work!
It is also a matter of the deepest distress to the Holy Father, that a picture painted by your niece Donna Angela Sovrani and entitled 'The Coming of Christ, in which the Church itself is depicted as under the displeasure of our Lord, should be permitted to contaminate the minds of the nations by public exhibition.
"That is true that is true!" murmured old Sovrani, ruffling his white hair with one hand, while he still stared abstractedly at his daughter's picture "You are very patient with me, brother! you have all the kindness as well as all the faithfulness of your sister, the sweetest woman the sun was ever privileged to shine on! Well, well! What did you say to me?
"Donna Sovrani is faithful to the truth in her sketch," he said, "therefore, as a lover of truth I do not see, my dear Bonpre, why you should object! If she has, as she says, some great aim in view, she must fulfil it in her own way.
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