"Who is Giovanelli?"
"The little Italian. I have asked questions about him and
learned something. He is apparently a perfectly respectable
little man. I believe he is, in a small way, a cavaliere
avvocato. But he doesn't move in what are called the first circles.
I think it is really not absolutely impossible that the courier
introduced him. He is evidently immensely charmed with Miss Miller.
If she thinks him the finest gentleman in the world, he, on his side,
has never found himself in personal contact with such splendor,
such opulence, such expensiveness as this young lady's. And
then she must seem to him wonderfully pretty and interesting.
I rather doubt that he dreams of marrying her.
That must appear to him too impossible a piece of luck.
He has nothing but his handsome face to offer, and there is
a substantial Mr. Miller in that mysterious land of dollars.
Giovanelli knows that he hasn't a title to offer.
If he were only a count or a marchese! He must wonder
at his luck, at the way they have taken him up."
"He accounts for it by his handsome face and thinks Miss
Miller a young lady qui se passe ses fantaisies!"
said Mrs.
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