Fascinate such a man as that, and in such a position, bambina mia,
and all the governors, and all the Cardinals that ever mumbled a
mass, won't avail to prevent him from being your own!"
"Well, I suppose you are right, Quinto. And I suppose that that is
what it must be!--But--well! it is time to be going to bed, I
suppose; I am tired and sleepy!" said Bianca, rousing herself after
a pause from a reverie into which she seemed to have fallen, and
yawning as she got up from the sofa.
CHAPTER III
"Armed at All Points"
The quartiere which La Lalli found prepared at Ravenna for her and
her travelling companion was a very eligible one. It consisted of a
very nicely-furnished sitting-room, with a bed-room opening off on
one side for herself, and another similarly situated on the other
side for her father. There was also, behind, one little closet for a
servant to sleep in, and another, still smaller, intended to serve
as a kitchen.
On the morning following the conversation related in the last
chapter Bianca, hearing Quinto coming out of his bed-room into the
sitting-room about nine o'clock, called out to him from her bed:
"Oh, papa! I forgot to tell you last night that the Marchese and
Signor Stadione are to be here at one o'clock to-day to hear me, and
settle about the night of the 6th, you know.
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