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Flamel! there's predestination in the name! Flamma! yes, fire. All lies there. The diamond is contained in the carbon, gold is in the fire. But how to extract it? Magistri affirms that there are certain feminine names, which possess a charm so sweet and mysterious, that it suffices to pronounce them during the operation.
I replied that I was, and he told me that it was the fervidus flamma being pumped into the lake through the underground aqueducts, which, of course, was for the purpose of igniting it to decoy for our raid. Once it was explained it made sense, yet I looked at it anyway, for it was still a gorgeous and inspiring view.
"Your ladyship expresses my own wishes." "If so, we might have the ceremony performed here, in our chapel." I remembered Father Paphuntius. "No, I'll have nothing to do with that chapel." Siegfried smiled as he guessed the reason of my embarrassed silence, and then Flamma smiled, and Diodora also. At last, as a smile has a soothing effect on everybody, we all laughed.
To-night that same big Nicolo is drinking Chianti with that same brother, and both shouted after me as I passed, 'Hola! Vincenzo Flamma! all is well between us because it is the blessed Christ's birthday." Vincenzo stopped and regarded me wistfully. "Well!" I said, calmly, "what has the big Nicolo or his brother to do with me?"
The explanation was, even as an allusion, objectionable in the presence of girls. Nevertheless I could perceive through the cloud of smoke that the pale face of Flamma had coloured violently, and that Cenni pouted and pushed the sun-bird away. The innocents were not so very innocent, after all. "Is not this beetle identical with the holy scarabæus of the Egyptians?" asked Countess Diodora. "No.
Die the death of a suicide, and be spoken of as a lunatic who had crazy fancies because his fortune had turned his head? And what would be the result? Flamma would perhaps faint away for a few seconds, have bad dreams for a week, wear mourning for six months, and would be none the worse for being a widow, whereas I should be laughed at as a silly fool. Shall I sue for a legal divorce?
I gazed at her, at the pale face that was even paler than usual, and cold and inanimate as a block of ice. "Flamma!" I cried, "what does it mean? How am I to take this?" "As a confession. That other man has made me his wife." "Flamma!" She stood there, pale, cold, statue-like, and her voice sounded like that of an automaton.
"With ever so much pleasure," I said, pleased that the pale, silent girl showed an interest in my favourites, the roses, and turned to me for a favour. Countess Diodora gave the required permission for the lesson, which was to be given and taken while the others were playing lawn-tennis on the adjacent grounds. Flamma was a bad player, anyhow, so she might take to horticulture meanwhile.
Whenever you are away she is gloomy, and melancholy, and out of spirits; but, as soon as she sees you or hears your voice, she brightens up and is good-humoured and pleasant. When, the other day, Flamma and I had made some remark about you some light jest she gave us such a sermon! telling us that men were all so different, and that you were, among them, like a real diamond among coloured glass.
For a second the thought flashed through my mind that I ought not to return at all, and that this should be my last visit to the place; but, somehow, to that rose-scion which I had taught Flamma how to inoculate I had involuntarily and unconsciously tied that particular part of my being which is known as the "soul."
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