Addio, Paolina mia.
You know where my heart will be all the time. Addio, anima mia."
CHAPTER VII
Two Interviews
After Ludovico had passed into the sitting-room in the Via di Porta
Sisi to pay his visit to Bianca, Quinto Lalli prepared to leave the
house in accordance with her suggestion that he should dispose of
himself out-of-doors for the present. But before going he called
Gigia the maid, and said, as he stood with the door in his hand:
"Gigia, cara mia, the Marchese Lamberto is coming here presently;
just make use of your sharp ears to hear what passes between him and
Bianca; and take heed to it, you understand, so as to be able to
give an account of it afterwards if it should be needed. You need
not say anything about it to la bambina till afterwards; I have no
secrets from her, you know, and, as soon as the Marchese is gone,
you may tell her that you have heard everything, and that I directed
you to do so; but better to say nothing about it beforehand.
Inteso?"
"Si, si, Signor Quinto! Lasci fare a me!"
And, with that, the careful old man went out for his walk, and it
was not half-an-hour after Ludovico left the house before the
Marchese made his appearance.
Bianca, now having completed her toilette, started from her sofa,
and went forward to meet him with both hands extended, and with one
of her sunniest smiles.
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