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There is no doubt at all as to what would happen if I
went to see Madame Del Ferice."
"Is your father so severe with you?" asked Maria Consuelo with a little
scorn.
"Alas, Madame, I am not sensitive to ridicule," answered Orsino, quite
unmoved. "I grant that there is something wanting in my character."
Maria Consuelo had hoped to find a weak point, and had failed, though
indeed there were many in the young man's armour. She was a little
annoyed, both at her own lack of judgment and because it would have
amused her to see Orsino in an element so unfamiliar to him as that in
which Donna Tullia lived.
"And there is nothing which would induce you to go there?" she asked.
"At present--nothing," Orsino answered coldly.
"At present--but in the future of all possible possibilities?"
"I shall undoubtedly go there. It is only the unforeseen which
invariably happens."
"I think so too."
"Of course. I will illustrate the proverb by bidding you good evening,"
said Orsino, laughing as he rose.


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