| No.85 Word as soon as the day |
 He morning I rang the bell as I was getting up, and
the younger sister
came into my room, and said that as they kept no servant she had come to
do what I wanted. I did not care to have a servant when I was not at M.
de Bragadin's, as I found myself more at liberty to do what
I liked. After she had done me some small services, I asked her how her
sister was. "Very well," said she, "for her pale complexion is not an
illness, and she only suffers when her breath fails her. She has a very
good appetite, and sleeps as well as I do." "Whom
do I hear playing the violin?" "It's the dancing master
giving my sister a lesson." I hurried over my dressing that I might see
her; and I found her charming, though her old dancing master allowed
her to turn in her toes. All that this young and beautiful girl wanted
was the Promethean spark, the colour of life; her whiteness was too like
snow, and was distressing to loo
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as these at all; his only fear was about his acceptance at last. He beat
