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He had at the same time announced her name to herself and the world, and

she not only had a name, but she was a princess; she took a rank in the

company, and Count Paulo and Carlo had no reason to be ashaht of hi ot that she

was a princess, to remember only that Carlo, her music-teacher, had

promised her to be present at this festival, and to wonder that she

could not discover hie

She did not remark that, since her appearance, a deep stillness had

supervened in the hall, that all eyes were upon her, that people

secretly whispered to each other, and gave utterance to ht; she saw not how the beauties

here and there turned pale and indignantly bit their proud lips; she saw

not how the eyes of the lances the cardinals and princes of the Church cast upon her

She was so unconstrained, this char child, she knew not how handso beauty Like a

white and delicate lily stood she there in the heavy white satin robe

that enveloped her graceful form, and the brilliants that adorned her

hair, neck, and arhted dew-drops in

the calyx of the flower So beautiful was she that even Cardinal Bernis