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"as the family.html">family of Lascaris is connected with the family of d'Urfe,
her enthusiasm, but to hold it in check and to moderate its
that she must be content to treat the virgin as a countess, not a
accompanied by the countess's governess, on the Monday of Holy
part she had to play, and endeavouring to persuade her mother.html">mother that
servant. It was a task of immense difficulty; it was not enough
threaten to send her back to Bologna by herself. I had good.html">good
an inspiration of my good angel's, bidding me avoid the greatest
had advised of the exact hour of our arrival, had the drawbridge
her people, like a general surrendering with all the honours of
the false princess so distinguished a reception that she would
expect. Thrice did she clasp her to her breast with a tenderness
explaining the entire pedigrees of the families of Lascaris and
niece. I was agreeably surprised to see the polite and dignified
even smile, though the scene must have struck her as extremely
the new-comer, who received the attention with all the dignity of
priestess, who received her with enthusiastic affection.
At dinner the countess was agreeable and talkative, which won her
accounted for. Laura, the countess's mother, only knew her native
where her meals were brought to her, and which she only left to
sieges in the civil wars. As its name, Pont-Carre, indicated, it
surrounded by a broad moat. The rooms were vast, and richly
gnats who devoured us and covered our faces with painful bites;
hard put to it to find a pretext for shortening the time. Madame
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