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Updated: July 10, 2025
For many years did Colonel Landi lead the life we have described. An event at length happened that was near proving fatal to him. He had been wounded in the leg during his campaigns in the Peninsula. A fall from his horse reopened this wound, and amputation became necessary.
He always talked French, as a middle course between Italian and English, and Edith spoke her own language to him. 'Elle. La Mere Frabelle, he laughed to himself. 'Elle est folle de ton mari! 'Oh, really, Landi! That's your fancy! He mimicked her. 'Farncy! Farncy! Je me suis monte l'imagination, peut-etre! J'ai un rien de fievre, sans doute! C'est une idee que j'ai, comme ca. Eh bien! Non!
'No, he answered, 'you are not a fool, but you are Filippina Landi, a runaway nun, and though you once got a pardon, you are in Rome now, and I can have it revoked in an hour, and you will be lodged in the Convent of Penitent Women before night, to undergo penance for the rest of your life. Pina shivered from head to foot and turned very pale.
These gave him a somewhat fierce aspect, which, combined with his upright carriage, and brisk mechanical-like movements, told you at once what Hugot had been a French soldier. He was, in fact, a ci-devant corporal of chasseurs. Landi had been his colonel. The rest you will easily guess. He had followed his old leader to America, and was now his man for everything.
I could go through anything if I were determined, and if I had the children safe. 'Never mind that for the present. Live for the day. Will you promise me that? She hesitated for a moment. Then he said: 'Really, dear, it's too serious to be impulsive about. Take time. 'Very well, Landi. I promise you that. 'Then we'll meet again afterwards and talk it over. I'll come and see you. 'Very well.
But the clou and great interest of the evening was the arrival of Sir Tito Landi, that most popular of all Italian composers.
Among them was one named Landi, who had been a colonel of chasseurs in Napoleon's army. He was by birth a Corsican; and it was through his being a friend and early acquaintance of one of the Bonaparte family that he had been induced to become an officer in the French army for in his youth he had been fonder of science than soldiering.
Landi she had often met at Aylmer's, but, privately, she was far more impressed by Valdez; first, he was English, though, like herself, of Spanish descent, and then he had none of the mechancete and teasing wit that made her uncomfortable with Landi. He treated her with particularly marked courtesy, and he admired her voice, for Lady Conroy had good-naturedly insisted on her singing to him.
'Oh, I think so; or I wouldn't have said it. Edith was really growing more and more loyal in her friendship. There certainly was something about Madame Frabelle that everybody, clever and stupid alike, seemed to be attracted by. Later Edith received a telephone call from Landi.
Aren't you going to eat anything more? 'Not much more. I look forward to my coffee and my cigar. Oh, how I look forward to it! 'You know very well, Landi, they let you smoke cigarettes between the courses, if you like. 'It would be better than nothing. We'll see presently. 'Might I inquire if you live on cigars and coffee? 'No, he answered satirically; 'I live on eau sucre. And porreege.
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