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The Young Countess, Or, Love and Jealousy
The Young Countess Or Love and Jealousy Author:Frances Milton Trollope General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1848 Original Publisher: H. Colburn Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can sele... more »ct from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. Upon seeking Alberti, the Countess discovered that the whole party, with the exception of Hermanstadt, Caroline, and herself, were assembled in the drawing-room for this very purpose of rehearsing. Her entrance among them was hailed by a general shout of satisfaction. " Now, then! we shall get on!" cried one. " Now, we shall understand what we are about," said another. " And we must not let our rehearsing be like child's-play any longer," observed a third. Alberti himself was by no means the least delighted of the party; for the planning a charade upon so grand and brilliant a scale as the present was too interesting an occupation VOL. III. D to be set aside, or in any degree neglected, because a love affair or two might not be running smoothly. Besides, he, and his faithful wife too, had on the preceding night come to the very decided opinion, that the Kosenau- Castle heroine was not one with whom it would be wise to interfere. Hermanstadt, as they both agreed, was old enough to know his own mind. The Countess certainly was very handsome, and, most assuredly, it would be an immense match for him; and as for that dearest and prettiest of all created creatures, Caroline de Marfeld, she did not, after all, seem to care enough about Count Alfred to make it in any way right to interfere further in the business. And so the charade was the only thing -- besides the great picture and the ball, and the fete at the old chateau -- that was to be thought of. " Welcome! our chatelaine /" he exclaimed, as the Countess entered. " Now, everything will go right. Ou...« less