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The repayment of the divorced lady's marriage portion was a thing of every-day occurrence in Rome, when she was allowed to take away as much as she had brought with her. Cicero, however, failed to get back Tullia's dowry. But he writes in good spirits. He does not think that he cares to travel any more.
Del Ferice had purposely excited Donna Tullia's curiosity, and he meant before long to tell more than he had vouchsafed in his first confidence. But he himself trembled before the magnitude of what he had suddenly thought of doing, for the fear of Giovanni was in his heart.
He looked positively handsome since he was wounded; he was accomplished and intelligent; he had sufficient means of support to prevent him from being suspected of marrying solely for money, and he had calmly stated that he loved her. Perhaps he did. It was flattering to Donna Tullia's vanity to believe him, and his acts had certainly not belied his words.
As the act is not inconsistent with the rest of her atrocious conduct, it is believed to have been done by Tullia's advice.
"Turned Zouave!" exclaimed Madame Mayer and Del Ferice in a breath. "Turned Zouave!" "Well?" said Gouache, raising his eyebrows and enjoying their surprise. "Well why not?" Del Ferice struck a fine attitude, and, laying one hand upon Donna Tullia's arm, whispered hoarsely in her ear "Siamo traditi we are betrayed!" he said. Whereupon Donna Tullia turned a little pale.
There was only one thing which could have rendered the prospect of Madame Mayer's picnic more disagreeable to him than it already was, and that would have been the presence of the Duchessa. He knew himself to be in a thoroughly false position in consequence of having yielded to Donna Tullia's half-tearful request that he would join the party.
He himself, almost lifeless, when he was returning home with his royal retinue frightened to death, and had arrived at the top of the Cyprian street, is slain by those who had been sent by Tarquin, and had overtaken him in his flight. As the act is not inconsistent with her other marked conduct, it is believed to have been done by Tullia's advice.
The pious magistrates had snuffed out for ever a little happy flame that had burned from the beginning of time. "And as on Tullia's tomb one lamp burned clear, Unchanged for fifteen hundred year..." He repeated the lines to himself, and was desolated to think of all the murdered past. Henry Wimbush's long cigar burned aromatically.
From Athens on his way home Cicero wrote to his wife, joining Tullia's name with hers. "Lux nostra," he calls his daughter; "the very apple of my eye!" He had already heard from various friends that civil war was expected. He will have to declare himself on his arrival that is, to take one side or the other and the sooner he does so the better.
Del Ferice was a very clever fellow. He put on his coat, and in five minutes was seated in a cab on his way to Donna Tullia's house, with a large envelope full of papers in his pocket. He found her as she had left him, her face still wrapped in a veil, walking up and down her drawing-room in great excitement.
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