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Rinaldo GraZiano-She is pretty little
creature, that niece of yours, Agnesa
mia.
Mrs. ST. George-Yes, she is pretty
girl enough.
Rinaldo-That wonderful charm of
youth, what a magic it is ! After thirty
woman is spollt, always excepting the
exceptions.
Mrs. st. George-You have changed
your opinion.
Rinaldo-Yes.
Mrs. ST. George remember when Won
used to say that no woman had come to
her beauty till she was after thirty.
Rinaldo-That was when | had lost my
head, ANNA mia.
Mrs. st. George-And now you have
recovered it?
Rinaldo-Well, you see it is inconve-
nient to live without it, Has the fair
Lily Torture?
Mrs. st. George-Why do you ask?
Rinaldo-Because I wish to know.
Mrs. st. George-Wny shouldyo wish
to know her private affairs /?
Rinaldo-That is my own concern. Tell
me, has she money?
Mrs. st. Georgia. little.
Rinaldo-How much?
Mrs. st. George-Her mothers por-
! ton.
Rinaldo-How reticent You are, Agnesa
mia Is the portion enough for Il life
without work, say in sunny Naples?
Mrs. st. George-That would depend
on the requirements of the person living
in Naples
Rinaldo-What an adept at fence you
are She will make a charming wife,
that fairfaccd Lily.
Mis-. st. George--Certainly abe will
make charming wife when she finds the
right man.
Rinaldo-You speak gnardedly and
without your usual enthusiasm. una belle
Are you jealous of Your pretty Lily?
Mrs. St G-orge-I am never jealous.
Rlnaldc-No Lucky woman Would
yon not be- jealous of me?
Mrs. St. Gn"rge-Of you? mol
Rlnaldo-Not if | made love to the
little miss?
Mrs. St. George--Thst I would not al
low.
Rinaldo-Did hear you rightly, Ag
mesa mia ? Say that again.
Mrs st. George would not allow
you, Rinnld" to make love to my niece.
Rnuldo-You do not often make II falls,
move, namesake Of virgin SMUT; but TIL.
time you have tripped grievously
Mrs St George--I do not see it.
Rinuldo-No? Are you SO ignorant o
human nature rs not to know that to def,
a man is to give him extra stimulus? Yul
will not allow me to make love to the fa
Lily? How will you prevent it, may
ask :?
Mrs. ST. George--I will send her away
Rinaldo-Have no feet to follow?
Mrs. St. George would send he
where you would not find her.
Rinaldo-Yes. Do you know tina
phrase-pntting on the screw? If yo
do not, / advise you to learn it.
Mrs. st. George-Rinaldo how ca
you be such villain?
: Rinaldo-Why villain, cara mia? VIVA
legal barrier stands between Miss Lii
Mackenzie and myself? Why villain, IN
sanity Agnes?
t Mrs. st. Gsorge-If not legal
Rinaldo-Then nothing. / recogniz
; no power save that which can be enforce
Il by the police
s Mrs. st. George Rinaldol
Rinaldo-You spoke7
: Mrs. st. George could not have bt
lieved that any ore in the world coul
have been 80 base!
Rinaldo-Well, really, I do not see IL
e baseuess, | am young, your niece
II younger. | have a name, she has none
e | am not an ogre, she is pretty. lam h,
equal in all things; and when she is NJ
wife | shall neither starve her nor bel
her. What baseness is there in sayir
:, this and acting on it? II your ME,
IL pleases me why should | not make 1t
e, understand her good fortune? Ipleast
her aunt before her. What marvel tn
y the charm should be repeated in the Sc
ond generation?
Mrs. st. George-Have you no delic
~ cy, Rinaldo, no conscience?
Rinaldo About AS much as will mat,
w that of the handsome well preserved. al
amiable Agnes St. George. Now do n
III get angry, ma belle. Your style is 7
y pose, not turbulence and when you 10
Id your temper, you lose your beauty. An
u you know we artists are fastidious.
r, Mrs. st. George-Can any man liviI
30 be so brutal-so shameless
Rinaldo-One. you see, has so mu
te courage--one whom You have honore
re too, by your love-
"a Mrs. st. George--To think that I on
believed in you that have sacrific
fortune, and far, far more than fortul
I'D to make you, to help you that was
far deceived as to imagine you honorab
all trustworthy, noble
on Rinaldo--And that now Won will ten
ur the pretty Lily to intone the same cha
Mrs. st. George-Never | will
nd first
id. Rinaldo- SO its war, then
rr Mrs. st. GeOrge-On this? Yes,
he o the knife
81, Rinaldo- Soft! l am ready for a
inl thlng-a man Of infinite resources,
m belle. We southern Italians are.
Mrs. st. George--And I, too, am q
'ou man of Infinite resources.
Rinaldo-I know that. Who 80 vel
!, IL But you will lose this game, Agn
TN MIA. You know the stakes--the hant
Lily, or the pretty little love story
on, and know of made public to the wo
ose 1t will be rather heavy forfeit for
'ar highly respectable and much respec
an Mrs. st. George to pay. But it is on,
the the other. Choose and
yer Mrs. st. George-It shall not be Lii
nod Rinaldo-Then it must be yours
But let me advise you az frIend-as v
me- best friend, Agnesa mia keep on z
terms with me and further my wishes
will be better for you in the end.
am. Mrs. St. George will die Hrst
the Rinaldo A wilful woman must b
her own way. Adieu, then, and /
are care.
cry Mrs. St George No, will not sll
hands with you, Rinaldo. You are
last shameful, too wicked
ken Rinaldo- After ull, you have mi,
n. |