Mezzoni the Brigand — page 102: what you’re looking at

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94 MEZZONI THE BRIGAND. appear curious, however, and would not permit him- self to ask any questions relative to these move- ments. He quietly looked on with assumed indiffer- ence at everything he saw. Le CHAPTER X, POISONED! Count Amadeo’s secret, with regard to the cause of his late duel, was well kept, so much that his most intimate friends never for a moment suspected its real importance. A singular depression seemed to take possession of the count, however, and he grew more sober and taciturn. He had thought in secret very intently upon the duel and its cause, and had been more and more impressed with the remarkable behavior of Alberto Corrello. “Guilty men do not conduct themselves in that manner,”’ he said to himself. As to Signora Amadeo, she, too, seemed to be greatly changed of late. She brooded over her dis- grace with her husband, though not because she hon- estly repented of her guilty love for the roue of the Corrello family. She dreamed of him still; indeed her passion, though now more guarded, had taken the form of mania, and was the more dangerous from its smoldering character. She watched him, herself unseen, in a thousand different ways, and said to herself, ‘‘Since he has risked his life and has been wounded rather than to expose me, I will un- — hesitatingly risk all and everything for him.’’ She meant all she declared. Count Amadeo was over sixty years of age, and (ef @ )