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And Venetia Corona dropped her proud head down upon the silken cushions where his own had rested, and wept as women weep over their dead in such a passion as had never come to her in all the course of her radiant, victorious, and imperious life. It seemed to her as if she had seen him slain in cold blood, and had never lifted her hand or her voice against his murder.
Venetia grew in years, and grace, and loveliness; each day apparently more her mother's joy, and each day bound to that mother by, if possible, more ardent love. She had never again experienced those uneasy thoughts which at times had haunted her from her infancy; separated from her mother, indeed, scarcely for an hour together, she had no time to muse.
While Venetia was half broken-hearted, her mother silently returned thanks to Providence for the merciful dispensation which had exempted her child from so much misery. The day after their return to town, Captain Cadurcis called upon them.
The social pictures are as realistic as those of Trollope, and now and then as bright as those of Thackeray. The love-making is tender, pretty, and not nearly so mawkish as that of "Henrietta Temple" and "Venetia." There is plenty of wit, epigram, squib, and bon mot.
It was then that Venetia's effect upon him acted as the contents of the white-paper acts when emptied into the tumbler that holds the blue-paper-half of the seidlitz powder. Venetia saw his face. "Don't make a scene," she cried. That was the stirring of the spoon. He rushed up to the bearded man and caught him by the arm. The bearded one turned sharply and pushed him away.
'Mother! speak to him, said Venetia, with her head on her mother's bosom, who still, however, remained rigidly standing. But Lady Annabel was silent. 'Your mother was ever stern and cold, Venetia, said Herbert, the bitterness of his heart at length expressing itself. 'Never, said Venetia, with great energy; 'never; you know not my mother.
Hungary and Bohemia had been guaranteed constitutional independence; the Austrian provinces awaited their promised constitution; Lombardy and Venetia had declared their independence of Austria; four Italian states had obtained their longed-for constitutions, and all were ready for a war with Austria; Prussia was promised a constitution, and lastly, the National Assembly at Frankfurt was about to prepare a constitution for a united Germany.
'I hope, I believe there is no occasion for apprehension, replied Lady Annabel; 'indeed, it has scarcely entered my head. The very charms he once admired in Venetia can have no sway over him, as I should think, now. I should believe him as little capable of appreciating Venetia now, as he was when last at Cherbury, of anticipating the change in his own character.
Venetia was anxious to know his opinion of the improvements at the abbey, which she had superintended; but he assured her that he would examine nothing without her company, and ultimately they agreed to walk over to Cadurcis. It was a summer day, and they walked through that very wood wherein we described the journey of the child Venetia, at the commencement of this very history.
But were they happy? Had they no secret sorrows? Was their seclusion associated with unhappiness? These were reflections that made Venetia grave; but she opened her journal, and, describing the adventures and feelings of the morning, she dissipated some mournful reminiscences.
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