Volume II Part 4 (1/2)
”I belong to him, or shall”
”Do you mean that you are married to Anastase?”
”Not yet, or I should not be here”
”But you will be?”
”Yes,--that is, if nothing should happen to prevent our being azed up and s dew ”I will not say you are again audacious, because you are so very innocent I do wish it”
”I said _like_, Fraulein Cerinthia”
”You can make a distinction too Suppose I said, No”
”I should not believe you while you look so”
”And if I said, Yes, I daresay you would not believe me either Dear little Carl,--for I must call you little, you are somusic as I do, unless I really loved that which I was towere her tones in these sie all quivering now, that I was alienated at once from her,--the child from the woman; yet could like a child have wept too, when she bent her head and sobbed ”Could anything be , my very memory sobs, heavy laden with pathetic passion For it was not exactly sorrow, albeit a very woful bliss She covered her eyes and gave way aoff the tears with one hand, she broke into a sht, but still the sunlight served to fling aupon the rain-drops,--an iris lustre beamed around her eyes I can but recall that ineffable expression, the April playing over the oriental ht have known you would have spoken so, Fraulein Cerinthia,” I responded, at last roused to preternatural comprehension by her words; ”but so few people think in that way about those things”
”You are right, and agree with me, or at least you will one day But for that, all would be music here; we should have it all _our oay_”
”You and the Chevalier Do you know I had forgotten all about your music till this very minute?”
”I am very happy to hear that, because it shoe are to be friends”
”We have the best authority to be so,” I replied; ”and it only seeh,
Delemann says there never was in Europe a voice like yours, and that its only fault is it is so heavenly that it makes one discontented”
”That is one of the divinest mistakes ever made, Carlino”
”The Chevalier calls ”
”You have served h authorities, Maestrino
The Chevalier says I have scarcely a voice at all; it is the way I sing he likes”
”I did not think it possible And yet, now I coer as another sort of musician”
She smiled a little, and looked into her lap, but did not reply It struck me that she was too intuitively modest to talk about herself
But I could not help endeavoring to extort some comment, and I went on