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"I intend to hear it, and at once," replied Astrardente. "You will not have to employ force to extract it from me, I can assure you," said Valdarno, settling himself in his chair, but avoiding the angry glance of the old man. "Everybody has been repeating it since the day before yesterday, when it occurred. You were at the Frangipani ball you might have seen it all.
"If Antonelli had heard of these affairs he would have stopped them soon enough." Valdarno glanced behind him, and, bending a little, whispered in Astrardente's ear "They were both Liberals, you must know." "Liberals?" repeated the old dandy, with a cynical sneer. "Nonsense, I say! Liberals?
Do you mean to say that there was not a sbirro or a gendarme in the neighbourhood to-day nor yesterday?" "That is not so surprising," answered Valdarno, with a knowing look. "There would have been few tears in high quarters if Del Ferice had been killed yesterday; there will be few to-day over the death of poor Casalverde." "Bah!" ejaculated Astrardente.
"Yes," answered her companion, with a significant smile, "I presume you do." Donna Tullia laughed harshly as she got into her carriage. "You are detestable, Valdarno you always misunderstand me. Are you going to the ball tonight?" "Of course. May I have the pleasure of the cotillon?" "If you are very good if you will go and ask the news of Del Ferice." "I sent this morning.
"Nevertheless, Donna Tullia is going to marry him," returned Giovanni. "She must find him to her taste. I used to think she might have married Valdarno he is so good-natured, you know!" Giovanni spoke in a tone of reflection; the other two laughed. "And now, Giovannino," said his father, "we must set out for Aquila, and find your namesake."
So the whole party climbed again to their seats upon the drag, and Valdarno drove them back into Borne by the Porta San Giovanni.
The wedding was a brilliant affair, and if the old prince's hospitality left something to be desired, the display of liveries, coaches and family silver was altogether worthy of so auspicious an occasion. Everybody was asked, and almost everybody went, from the Saracinesca to Anastase Gouache, from Valdarno to Arnoldo Meschini.
"... the Moon, whose orb The Tuscan artist views through optic glass At evening from the top of Fesolé, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe." The moon is probably the most interesting of all telescopic objects. This arises from its comparative nearness to the earth.
Lionardo da Vinci was born in Valdarno in 1452, and died in France in 1519. Michael Angelo Buonarroti was born at Caprese, in the Casentino, in 1475, and died at Borne in 1564, having outlived the lives of his great peers by nearly half a century. Raphael Santi was born at Urbino in 1483, and died in Rome in 1520. Antonio Allegri was born at Correggio in 1494, and died there in 1534.
As Corona looked there was a pause, and the crowd parted, while a huge tiger, the heraldic beast of the Frangipani family, was drawn into the hall by the young prince and Bianca Valdarno.
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