Both crossed themselves.
"She need not have got it up so terribly impressively, after all," she repeated.
"I daresay she will miss him at first," returned Valdarno, who was a kind-hearted fellow enough, and was very far from realising how much he had contributed to the sudden death of the old dandy.

"She is a strange woman.

I believe she had grown fond of him." "Oh, I know all that," said Donna Tullia, as they left the church.
"Yes," answered her companion, with a significant smile, "I presume you do." Donna Tullia laughed harshly as she got into her carriage.
"You are detestable, Valdarno--you always misunderstand me.

Are you going to the ball tonight ?" "Of course.

May I have the pleasure of the cotillon ?" "If you are very good--if you will go and ask the news of Del Ferice." "I sent this morning.