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That room of Dona Violante and her daughters was a haunt of infection; from the hooks nailed to the wall hung dirty rags, and between the lack of air and the medley of odours a stench arose strong enough to fell an ox. Manuel listened to Dona Violante's stories with genuine delight. The old lady was at her best in her commentaries.
His elder brother, the grandfather of the Lady Violante, had inherited the family estates in the neighbourhood of Pesaro, and had died, leaving them to his only son, Violante's father, when the latter was a very young man. This Conte Alberto Marliani had married for love, as it is called.
But on the one hand, Randal could not resign altogether the chance of securing a fortune that would realize his most dazzling dreams, upon the mere assurance, however probable, which had so dismayed him; and on the other hand, should he be compelled to relinquish all idea of such alliance, though he did not contemplate the base perfidy of actually assisting Peschiera's avowed designs, still, if Frank's marriage with Beatrice should absolutely depend upon her brother's obtaining the knowledge of Violante's retreat, and that marriage should be as conducive to his interests as he thought he could make it, why he did not then push his deductions further, even to himself, they seemed too black; but he sighed heavily, and that sigh foreboded how weak would be honour and virtue against avarice and ambition.
The philosopher, unchanged by his brightening prospects, so far as the outer man was concerned, still characterized by the red umbrella and the accustomed pipe, took the way mechanically towards the sunniest quarter of the grounds, now and then glancing tenderly at Violante's downcast, melancholy face, but not speaking; only, at each glance, there came a brisker cloud from the pipe, as if obedient to a fuller heave of the heart.
Then I might have felt assured that the Future would efface the Past, and found the courage to tell him all. And when last night I spoke of what Harley ought to be to England, how like were Violante's eyes and smile to Nora's, when Nora listened in delighted sympathy to the hopes of my own young ambition."
I hold in my hand the destinies of a million of souls, and the iron enters into mine not because those others are in danger, not because those others are enslaved no! but because at Donna Violante's card-table the Marchesa Serafina disregards my call for trumps!
On leaving Violante's room, Lady Lansmere paused before the door of Helen's; and, after musing a little while, entered softly. Helen had dismissed her maid; and, at the moment Lady Lansmere entered, she was kneeling at the foot of the bed, her hands clasped before her face.
Leonard, I think you would rejoice at an occasion to serve your old friends, Dr. Riccabocca and his daughter?" "Serve them! Oh, yes." And there instantly returned to Leonard the recollection of Violante's words when, on leaving his quiet village, he had sighed to part from all those he loved; and the little dark-eyed girl had said, proudly, yet consolingly, "But to SERVE those you love!"
Dona Casiana shook her head sadly, for her age and circumstances enabled her to put herself in Dona Violante's place, and she argued with this example, asking them to put themselves in the grandmother's position; but neither was convinced. Then the landlady advised them to peer into her mirror.
However, he could not recoil from her father's proposition, though, in order to prepare Riccabocca for Violante's representation, he confessed pathetically that his impatience to obtain her consent and baffle Peschiera had made him appear a rude and presumptuous wooer.
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