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'It's just about five years since they had such a turn-out at the vicarage, said Higgs in a crisp little voice. 'Miss Violetta was nineteen then; she'll be twenty-four now. 'Yes, said the curate absently; 'what was up then? ''Twas a dinner much of a muchness to this. Mrs. Higgs, she was just reminding me of it. But that was in honour of Mr. Herbert, of the 'All. You'll 'ave heard of him?
"The second condition," said the Costumer, "is that this good young Cherry-man here has the Mayor's daughter, Violetta, for his wife. He has been kind to me, letting me live in his cherry-tree and eat his cherries and I want to reward him." "We consent," cried all the people; but the Mayor, though he was so generous, was a proud man. "I will not consent to the second condition," he cried angrily.
Nothing can be more useful than to give to each class in society, a proper sense of its obligations, and a just sentiment of its duties. These are opinions I greatly approve, and which I desire my ward may thoroughly understand." "She is happy in possessing instructors so able and so willing to teach all she should know," rejoined Violetta.
Violetta, Colinette, and Augustus were safer comrades, and Rose continued to find them sufficient, varied with the rare delight of now and then sharing her aunt's drive, and brightened by many a kind message in Colonel Keith's letters to her aunt, nay, occasionally a small letter to herself, or an enclosure of some pretty photograph for her much-loved scrap book, or some article for Colinette's use, sometimes even a new book!
She is the exact contrast to the Countess Violetta in face, in everything. Heart-disease will certainly never affect that pretty spy!
So I imagined that it was a little girl called Violetta and we were great friends and I loved her almost as well as I loved Katie Maurice not quite, but almost, you know. The night before I went to the asylum I said good-bye to Violetta, and oh, her good-bye came back to me in such sad, sad tones.
Perceiving how completely she was in the power of Don Camillo, she began to feel the necessity of being more explicit. "Your eccellenza has probably suspected that the council found means to be acquainted with your intention to fly from the city with Donna Violetta?" "All that is known to me." "Why they chose me to be the servitor of the noble lady is beyond my powers to discover.
Donna Violetta suppressed the exhibition of her own resentment, and of her wounded affections, by a powerful effort, in which she was greatly sustained by her pride; but she could not entirely conceal the anguish of another sort, that was seated in her eye. "Do I understand that this prohibition extends to her who in common serves my person?" "Signora, such are my instructions."
Countess Ammiani's door was the length of a barricade distant: it swung open to them, like all the other house-doors which were, or wished to be esteemed, true to the cause, and hospitable toward patriots. "Remember, when you need a refuge, my villa is on Lago Maggiore," Violetta said, and kissed her finger-tips to him.
'Violetta, it is amiable of you, and loyal, to excuse and defend your mother, but tell me tell me, as you speak before God, that you do not think as you have spoken. You are a woman now, with a soul of your own; tell me you know that to take this necklace and to keep it secretly was a terrible sin. 'Indeed' with candour 'I do not think anything of the sort.
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