[Vittoria by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookVittoria CHAPTER XII 2/29
Can you trace it to her hand? Who put the plague-mark upon you ?' Vittoria looked steadily away from her. 'It means just this,' Carlo interposed; 'there! now it 's off; and, signorina, I entreat you to think nothing of it,--it means that any one who takes a chief part in the game we play, shall and must provoke all fools, knaves, and idiots to think and do their worst.
They can't imagine a pure devotion.
Yes, I see--"Sei sospetta." They would write their 'Sei sospetta' upon St.Catherine in the Wheel.
Put it out of your mind.
Pass it.' 'But they suspect her; and why do they suspect her ?' Laura questioned vehemently.
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