[Vittoria by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookVittoria CHAPTER XI 22/24
We live in the hope that our masters will pay us better! Tell me! you are in good health? All is well with you? Will they have to put paint on her soft cheeks to-morrow? Little, if they hold the colour as full as now? My Sandra! amica! should I have been jealous if Giacomo had known you? On my soul, I cannot guess! But, you love what he loved.
He seems to live for me when they are talking of Italy, and you send your eyes forward as if you saw the country free.
God help me! how I have been containing myself for the last hour and a half!' The signora dropped in a seat and laughed a languid laugh. 'The little ones? I will ring for them.
Assunta shall bring them down in their night-gowns if they are undressed; and we will muffle the windows, for my little man will be wanting his song; and did you not promise him the great one which is to raise Italy-his mother, from the dead? Do you remember our little fellow's eyes as he tried to see the picture? I fear I force him too much, and there's no need-not a bit.' The time was exciting, and the signora spoke excitedly.
Messing and Reggio were in arms.
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