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"She has therefore come?" cried Corilla, with an outburst of joy

"She is now here," he laconically said

Corilla no longer listened to him, she walked back and forth with a

triu upon her lips

At this ht knock at the door, which was opened,

and a lanced into the roon, and at the same time pointed at Carlo, who,

having his back toward her, see behind him But he saw it, nevertheless, in the tall mirror

that stood in the ence with that man as in the livery of Cardinal Francesco

Albani; he saw the er, which he threateningly swung over his head

Oh, Carlo had very well understood what that ers, this e of the Romans and

Neapolitans

The man had said: "She is here, that beautiful lady! She can no longer

escape us!"