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178 ; at least, when he again caresses thee, paint to him the sensations of my heart.'"

"I do not," exclaimed Guido, "marvel so much at these extravagances of affection as at their being publicly repeated. To express any emotion seems to me the most difficult thing in the world."

"She got out of the ridicule very well," replied De Joinville, "by throwing over it a little tinge of sentiment. 'I do not mind,' said she, observing a general smile, 'your laughing at the excess of my love to my son. I own I feel capable of doing all sorts of foolish things for his sake.'"

"I could not have believed," remarked Francesca, "had I not witnessed it since my residence in your country, how the reality and the affectation of feeling can exist together. Before I left our solitary home, the very exhibition of emotion would have tempted me to doubt its truth. Now, I observe that some affect, as others shun, display; yet the feeling is equally true in both."

"Talking of display, half the court is in ecstasies about the romantic devotion of la Marquise de la Beaume to the memory of the Duc de Candale. He was a great admirer of hers, and, on his journey to and from Catalonia, invariably paused to pay his homage at Lyons, where she