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She read Count Orloff's billet with a satisfied s the jewels

"How that shines, and how that sparkles," said the exhilarated poetess;

"not even a lover's eyes flash so brightly, nor is his s of these gee these solitaires and

rosettes into a beautiful villa, or into a fragrant park with silent

arbors, intoxicating odors, and sweetly-singing birds All that is

promised me by these stones--a lover's promises do not express half so

much And only to think that it is Carlo, my former lover, to whom I

am indebted for these diamonds! From love to him I wished to destroy

Natalie, and that wish procured me the favor of the Russian count, and

consequently these brilliants Poor Carlo! these dialances that are now extinguished by

death--but this cruel, inexorable death has no power over dialed, poor Carlo! I shall

reht of thee ht beautiful i to mind thy beautiful form overfloith blood Yes,

it will inspire in me a very effective improvisation, and I will at the

sa rhyrave And when I have the rhyhts and

words will cos

with poets!"

And while the i to herself, she had

the