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Imogens turned and looked at Colville through the eye-holes of her mask; even in that sort of isolation he thought her eyes expressed surprise. "It never occurred to you before that I was a young man," he suggested gravely. She did not reply. After a little interval, "Imogene," asked Mrs. Bowen, "would you like to dance?" Colville was astonished. "The veglione has gone to your head, Mrs.
Colville was annoyed. He asked her if he should tell the fellow to take himself off. "Not on any account!" she answered. "It's perfectly delightful. It wouldn't be the veglione without it. Did you ever see such good acting?" "I don't think it's remarkable for anything but its fervour," said Colville. "I should like to see you making love to some lady," she rejoined mischievously.
Generally, however, in the pleasure-loving cities of Italy, a few hours' law are allowed or winked at. The revellers are not supposed to become aware that it is past midnight till about three or four in the morning. Very generally the wind-up of the season of fun and frolic consists of what is called a "Veglione," or "great making a night of it," which means a masked ball at the theatre.
"How very prettily you did it, both of you!" said Mrs. Bowen. "I begin to believe you are an Italian, Mr. Colville. I shall be afraid of you." "You weren't afraid of him." "Oh, he was a real Italian." "It seems to me that mamma is getting all the good of the veglione," said Effie, in a plaintive murmur. The well-disciplined child must have suffered deeply before she lifted this seditious voice.
"What you have said is equivalent to saying that your friends of Florence are a matter of complete indifference to you!" "I love my friends of Florence, and you know it, Gerald Fane! And I don't believe they'd ever turn against me, no matter what trouble I'd made for myself at that confounded veglione. So I don't look to leaving Florence just yet a while. You know I was only talking.
"Charlie Hunt stood there a moment as if thinking it over, looking at me with the meanest grin; then he said with that hateful, sarcastic look of a person who thinks he's being smart in getting back at you: "'Is that as true, he said, 'as that you never indulged in carnival humor masked as a crow? Then I knew he'd somehow got on to the truth about that night at the veglione.
And the last veglione of the season is rather brighter than the rest, as if the spirit of revelry, inexhausted at the end of Carnival, made haste to use itself up in fireworks before the cold dawn of Ash Wednesday. The opera-house is cleared of its rows of seats, the stage united to the parquet by a sloping floor.
At the hours when society assembled in this house or that and inquired for him, or wondered about him, he was commonly taking a nap, and he was punctually in bed every night at eleven, after his return from Mrs. Bowen's. He believed, of course, that he went there because he now no longer met Imogene elsewhere, and he found the house pleasanter than it had ever been since the veglione. Mrs.
Masks were passing in and out; the nervous joy of the ladies expressed itself in a deep-drawn quivering sigh. Their carriage door was opened by a servant of the theatre, who wished them a pleasant veglione, and the next moment they were in the crowded vestibule, where they paused a moment, to let Imogene and Effie really feel that they were part of a masquerade.
One sole point of interest it has, that of a future curiosity the only thing of the kind that will have been painted in his whole lifetime by "Your devoted friend, "G. F. "Shall I find you at home this evening?" No festivity has quite the vast and varied glitter of a veglione. It takes a whole city to make a party so big and bright.
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