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Aurora's attention became closer when Gerald related his interviews with De Brézé and Costanzi, both of whom he had succeeded in convincing that Antonia had had nothing to do with intriguing them at the veglione, and had left to digest as best they could their curiosity concerning the mysterious masker mistaken for her.
To the Duchess's "view halloo" every drop of blood in him responded; but a vigilant image kept his bosom barred. So they rode, danced, diced together, but like strangers who cross hands at a veglione. Once or twice he fancied the Duchess was for unmasking; but her impulses came and went like fireflies in the dusk, and it suited his humour to remain a looker-on.
"Do you think you will know your papa at the veglione?" asked one of the shop-women, with a mounting interest in the amiable family party. They all laughed; the natural mistake seemed particularly droll to Imogene. "Come," cried Mrs. Bowen; "it's time we should be going."
"Oh, but at the veglione!" breathed the girl for all answer. He laughed again, but Mrs. Bowen did not laugh with him; he wondered why. When they returned to their corner in the theatre they found a mask in a black domino there, who made place for them, and remained standing near.
The smiles were now playing across the child's face, and her eyes sparkling. "I think Mr, Colville would make a good Saint Nicholas the kind they have going down chimneys in America. I'm going to tell him, for the next veglione. It would be such a nice surprise." "No, better not tell him that," suggested Imogene. "Do you think he wouldn't like it?" "Yes." "Well, it would become him.
Within the eye-holes of their masks the eyes of the intruders glittered in the glassy, baffling way of eyes behind masks. Aurora, unused to the mode of procedure at a veglione, asked helplessly in a whisper of Landini: "What shall I say to them?" He spoke for her then, in Italian, because he thought it probable that these were Florentines who had come into a strange box for a lark.
And the great central chandelier does not begin to descend into the body of the house, to have its lights flapped out by the handkerchiefs of the revellers amid a last frantic rondo, till some four hours after midnight. But in provincial Ravenna, a Pope's city under the rule of a Cardinal Legate, there is or was in the days when the Pope held sway there no Veglione.
But I found her in such trouble already when I went to see her yesterday that I said not one word of my grievance. It will have to wait." "You needn't think you must pick her up on my account. I don't care. But what was the matter?" "Two of her oldest friends, through an unaccountable mistake, turned into enemies. Both insist that under cover of a mask at the last veglione she insulted them.
"And if you couldn't take my hints, I was helpless." "Yes; I see it." "I was only afraid of saying too much, and all through that miserable veglione business I was trying to please you and him, because I was afraid I had said too much gone too far.
"Not in the least. My veglione hasn't ended yet. I'm still practically at the Pergola. It's easy to keep a thing of that sort up if you don't sleep after you get home." "Didn't you sleep? I expected to lie awake a long time thinking it over; but I dropped asleep at once. I suppose I was very tired. I didn't even dream." "You must have slept hard. You're pretty apt to dream when you're waking."
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