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Vittoria

CHAPTER VI
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Pericles has told me that Miss Belloni has removed to Florence." "Say it a third time," the lady indulgently remarked.
"I do not believe that she has gone." "I dare say not." "She has changed her name, you know." "Oh, dear, yes; she has done something fantastic, naturally! For my part, I should have thought her own good enough." "Emilia Alessandra Belloni is good enough, certainly," said Captain Gambier.
The shading straw rim had shaken once during the colloquy.

It was now a fixed defence.
"What is her new name ?" Mrs.Sedley inquired.
"That I cannot tell.

Wilfrid merely mentions that he has not seen her." "I," said Mrs.Sedley, "when I reach Milan, shall not trust to Mr.
Pericles, but shall write to the Conservatorio; for if she is going to be a great cantatrice, really, it will be agreeable to renew acquaintance with her.

Nor will it do any mischief to Wilfrid, now that he is engaged.

Are you very deeply attached to straw hats?
They are sweet in a landscape." Mrs.Sedley threw him a challenge from her blue eyes; but his reply to it was that of an unskilled youth, who reads a lady by the letters of her speech:--"One minute.


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