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Diana Trelawny was a great heiress in the ordinary sense of the word, though the term was one which she objected to strongly. She was rather a great proprietor and landowner, no longer looking forward to any inheritance, but in full possession of it. She had a fine estate, a f...
“I did not think Diana had been such a fool,” was the remark of Mrs. Hunstanton, when the arrangement was proposed to her. She made no objection to the joint journey. The invali...
2. CHAPTER II.There were very great people in the county, whom I will not venture to describe here,--a duke, with his duchess, and all the fine things that naturally belong to dukes: and two...
18. CHAPTER XVIII.Diana reached home when the country was in the full glory of summer. She, too, was like the summer, her friends said--more beautiful than ever she had been--with just a touch of...
16. CHAPTER XVI.The spring days lengthened into summer while the preliminaries of the marriage still went on. The Hunstantons could not retard their usual day of departure for any event of such...
13. CHAPTER XIII.Diana had begun to feel the influence of the Italian warmth, and that sweet penetrating sunshine which is happiness enough without any more active happiness, when there is no ac...
11. CHAPTER XI.The rooms on the third floor of the Palazzo de Sogni were not like those in Diana’s beautiful _appartamento_. The drawing-room, which was so spacious and lofty in the _piano nob...
14. CHAPTER XIV.Pandolfini rushed out of the house in a state of misery and despair impossible to describe. He had not made any explanation to Mr. Hunstanton of the real state of affairs. He wa...
12. CHAPTER XII.Pandolfini scarcely slept at all that night. His mind was full of dreams and visions, and an agitation beyond his control. He let himself in to his sombre _appartamento_, which...
15. CHAPTER XV.There was a certain solemnity about the party in Diana’s rooms that evening. Sophy and Mrs. Norton came downstairs in their best dresses, with an air of importance not to be mis...
4. CHAPTER IV.“So you have been happy,” said Miss Trelawny. She was in her room at her hotel, lying upon a sofa, not because of fatigue so much as to please the two little women who were flut...
17. CHAPTER XVII.The marriage took place on the first day of June--or rather that was the beginning of the repeated and laborious processes which made Sophy Norton into the Contessa Pandolfini....
6. CHAPTER VI.After this “these two,” as Mr. Hunstanton called them, “got on,” to make use also of his expression, very well. Pandolfini was very modest, and he was not in love as a boy of tw...
5. CHAPTER V.A great many things happened in the next few days. The first floor of the Palazzo dei Sogni, where the Hunstantons lived, being vacant, Diana was made by her friends to take it...
10. CHAPTER X.Mrs. Norton and her niece had received the tidings of the Hunstanton’s approaching departure with consternation almost more profound, and certainly more simple in its exhibition...
9. CHAPTER IX.Mrs. Hunstanton lingered after the visitors had gone away. She made a determined stand even against Mrs. Norton and Sophy, and outstayed them in spite of all their efforts. She...
7. CHAPTER VII.The presence of the Snodgrasses did not make very much difference to the party in the Palazzo dei Sogni; Mr. Hunstanton introduced them to the English club, and, as was natural,...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Diana seated herself in her favourite place, in a great chair covered with dark old velvet, which had got a bloom on it by dint of age, such as youth sometimes has, like the _du...
1. CHAPTER I.Diana Trelawny was a great heiress in the ordinary sense of the word, though the term was one which she objected to strongly. She was rather a great proprietor and landowner, no...