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What did it signify if a speech failed, provided the election was secure? He was longing for the appointment with Dick Avenel which was to make "all right!" The squire was to bring the money for the purchase of the coveted lands the next morning. Riccabocca had assured him, again and again, of Violante's hand.
Ah, Signorina, do not think of me save as an instrument towards the fulfilment of duties so high and sacred! think but of your ancestors, your father, your native land, and reject not the proud occasion to prove how you revere them all!" Violante's heart was touched at the right chord.
Violante's blush here made her still more beautiful; and as the countess returned to Riccabocca, she stole gently to Helen's side. "Miss Digby, my ward," said Harley, pointedly, observing that his mother had neglected her duty of presenting Helen to the ladies. He then reseated himself, and conversed with Mrs. Riccabocca; but his bright, quick eye glanced over at the two girls.
In a very few words he informed Frank of Violante's disappearance and of his reasons for suspecting the count.
"It's a bacchanal for the Duke," he said slowly.... "I've been looking up Violante's pose. Here it is." He read the lines in a musical voice. A heavy frown had come between the handsome eyes watching him. "You'll not paint her like that?" "I rather think I shall," responded Titian slowly. "She has promised." "And Giorgione?" "Giorgione lets her do as she likes. He trusts her as I do."
You had but to look into Violante's face to see how noble was the intelligence that brought soul to those lovely features. Nothing hard, nothing dry and stern was there. Even as you detected knowledge, it was lost in the gentleness of grace. In fact, whatever she gained in the graver kinds of information became transmuted, through her heart and her fancy, into spiritual, golden stores.
Circumstances of which it is needless now to inform you render it essential to my very peace and happiness that your marriage should he immediate. In a word, I have given my promise to Mr. Leslie, and I confidently leave it to the daughter of my House to redeem the pledge of her anxious and tender father." The letter dropped from Violante's hand. Randal approached, and restored it to her.
Harley alone but Levy had so positively assured him that Harley was not sincerely anxious for Egerton; and as to the more important explanation relative to Peschiera, surely what had satisfied Violante's father ought to satisfy a man who had no peculiar right to demand explanations at all; and if these explanations did not satisfy, the onus to disprove them must rest with Harley; and who or what could contradict Randal's plausible assertions, assertions in support of which he himself could summon a witness in Baron Levy?
The last words of Peschiera were still ringing in Violante's ears when Harley appeared in sight, and the sound of his voice dispelled the vague and dreamy stupor which had crept over her senses. At that voice there returned the consciousness of a mighty loss, the sting of an intolerable anguish. To meet Harley there, and thus, seemed impossible.
To gain it, he passed by the door of Violante's. His heart suffused with grateful ineffable tenderness, he paused and kissed the threshold. The joyous, divine elasticity of spirit, that in the morning of life springs towards the Future as a bird soars into heaven, pervaded his whole sense of being.
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