"
"Funny, isn't it? I wonder what her game is?"
"Simply to work hard at her vocation, and make as much money as she
can, I take it. Probably you would find, if you got at the truth,
some animal of a baritono robuato, who owns the Diva's heart, and
for whom she works and slaves."
"Poverina! there are the Castelmare carriages coming round again."
The manner of an Italian "Corso" is this: A certain street, or
streets--the most adapted to the exigencies of the case that the
city can supply--is selected for the purpose; and when the line of
carriages reaches the end of this, it turns and proceeds back again
to the other end; turns again, and so on. Thus, at each turn, every
carriage in the line meets every other once in each circuit.
The second Castelmare carriage, in which the Marchese Ludovico and
Leandro Lombardoni were sitting, was following next after that
occupied by the Marchese Lamberto and his sister-in-law; and thus
each carriage in the line proceeding in a contrary direction to
them, passed first the Marchese Lamberto and then his nephew. The
carriage occupied by the latter was a wholly open one with a low
back. But that in which the Marchese Lamberto sat, though also an
open carriage, and entirely so in front, had a half roof at the
back, so that it was not so conveniently adapted as the other for
seeing those following it as well as those preceding it.
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