[Vittoria by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookVittoria CHAPTER XVII 13/20
'I saw you but the day before yesterday, madame, or I could have brought you together. She is now away-off--out of sight--the perfule! Ah false that she is; speak not of her.
You remember her in England.
There it was trouble, trouble; but here, we are a pot on a fire with her; speak not of her. She has used me ill, madame.
I am sick.' His violent gesticulation drooped.
In a temporary abandonment to chagrin, he wiped the moisture from his forehead, unwilling or heedless of the mild ironical mouthing of the ladies, and looked about; for Carlo had made a movement to retire,--he had heard enough for discomfort. 'Ah! my dear Ammiani, the youngest editor in Europe! how goes it with you ?' the Greek called out with revived affability. Captain Gambier perceived that it was time to present his Italian acquaintance to the ladies by name, as a friend of Mademoiselle Belloni. 'My most dear Ammiani,' Antonio-Pericles resumed; he barely attempted to conceal his acrid delight in casting a mysterious shadow of coming vexation over the youth; 'I am afraid you will not like the opera Camilla, or perhaps it is the Camilla you will not like.
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