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His brow darkened; he turned abruptly away, leaving Violante lost in amaze, fear, and a delight, vague, yet more vividly felt than all.
Without trusting himself to speak further, he quitted the demesne, and walked with swift strides towards London. Harley had not long reached his hotel, and was still seated before his untasted breakfast, when Mr. Randal Leslie was announced. Randal, who was in the firm belief that Violante was now on the wide seas with Peschiera, entered, looking the very personation of anxiety and fatigue.
His daughter Violante was wedded with great ceremony to the Duke of Clarence, son of Edward III. of England, who is said to have received with her as a dowry the sum of two hundred thousand golden florins, and at the same time five cities on the Piedmont frontier.
Violante turned away. Her emotion was so artless, her very anger so charming, that the love, against which, in the prevalence of his later and darker passions, he had so sternly struggled, rushed back upon Harley's breast; but it came only in storm. "Stay, but talk not of Helen!" he exclaimed. "Ah, if Leonard's sole offence had been what you appear to deem it, do you think I could feel resentment?
"Nay: leave the Queen to the Dama Margherita for this one blissful morning," she interrupted without ceremony: "for I have news verily; and they may return ere it be told. Which of you knoweth aught of the Holy Sister Violante she of the down-held lids and silent ways who slipped into the court the night of that great signal fire upon the mountain, behind the citadel?"
But the votes still stuck as firm to the hands as if a part of the skin, or of the dirt, which was much the same thing! Whenever Audley joined the other guests of an evening while Harley was perhaps closeted with Levy and committeemen, and Randal was going the round of the public-houses the one with whom he chiefly conversed was Violante.
But it so happened that when later, and a little while before he took his leave, Helen, at his request, was playing a favourite air of his, Lady Lausmere, who had been seated between him and Violante, left the room, and Violante turned quickly towards Harley. "Do you know the Marchesa di Negra?" she asked, in a hurried voice. "A little. Why do you ask?"
And the special ground of this approval was Manutoli's strong advocacy of the projected marriage between Ludovico and the Contessa Violante, and his consequent disapproval and discouragement of his friend's friendship and admiration for Paolina.
A little later he was passing by an ottoman in one of the less crowded rooms, on which the Marchese Ludovico was sitting with the Contessa Violante. She had, at an early period of the evening, abandoned all pretence of keeping up her incognito, and was dangling her black mask from her finger by its string as she sat talking to Ludovico.
"Daughter," said Riccabocca, drawing Violante to his side with caressing arm, "Daughter! Mark how they who turn towards the south can still find the sunny side of the land scape! In all the seasons of life, how much of chill or of warmth depends on our choice of the aspect! Sit down: let us reason." Violante sat down passively, clasping her father's hand in both her own.
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