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The princess, quick enough to see the treachery of Scorpa and the net of circumstantial evidence that he had thrown about them, felt utterly helpless. "It is true, even I did not actually see the duke take the picture," she said, "and I am the only one who knew anything about it. As Sandro's wife my word will have no weight at all!" Valdeste solemnly shook his head.
Nina turned helplessly toward the Princess Malio, but found in her a new inquisitor: "American fathers are proverbially generous" her ingratiating smile so ill suited her features that it seemed almost not to belong to her "of course your dot will be colossal?" Again Nina gasped, but before she was obliged to answer the Marchesa Valdeste laid her hand upon her arm.
Derby answered that he would come at once, and the reassurance that she felt from the mere sound of his voice partly communicated itself through her to the princess, as they went into the sitting-room to wait for him. A few minutes later the portières were lifted but instead of Derby, it was the Marchese Valdeste who entered.
The facts are that the duke sold it with perfect knowledge that it was to be smuggled out of the country. I have all the information necessary." "It is incredible, incredible the duke Scorpa!" exclaimed Valdeste. "But that the Prince Sansevero is cleared is the main thing."
Her Majesty was talking to the Marchesa Valdeste. Of all the older ladies to whom she had been presented, Nina liked the marchesa best. Her face had the sweet expression that can come only from genuine kindness and innate dignity. At a short distance from the royal box Don Cesare Carpazzi was talking to a young girl.
The Marchese Valdeste has approached your uncle in regard to a marriage between his son Carlo and you. Not being an Italian, I suppose you want to give your answer yourself. What do you say?" "What do I say!" Nina's eyes and mouth opened together. "Why, I have never seen the man!" The princess smiled. "The offer is made in the same way in which it would be if you were an Italian.
Then he added simply, "I am a good soldier!" The princess, who had been summoned to the telephone, now returned and seated herself beside Nina on the sofa. "I have just been talking with the Marchesa Valdeste, and she told me that the Queen said most gracious things of you, dear; called you the 'charming little American." The prince entered while the princess was speaking.
On account of the Court Ball those who had orders wore them, frequently so carelessly pinned to their coats that the decorations seemed likely to fall off. The Marchese Valdeste a really imposing man had two huge ones dangling from the flapping lapel of his coat, and a sash with a bow on the hip that would put any man's dignity to a supreme test.
"Would any one marry a Sansevero when there is a Scorpa to choose!" "It has happened," chuckled the princess. The threatening break in their habitual politeness was averted by the arrival of a third old lady, the Marchesa Valdeste.
At this unheard-of behavior, the duke hurried after her, biting his mustache. "Ah, ha!" ejaculated the old princess in the ear of the Marchesa Valdeste, "that cuttlefish of a Scorpa has thrown his tentacles out too far, and the goldfish is scurrying away in alarm."
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