Chapter
1 II | Ginevra was very sad. Her father, they say, has just resigned.
2 II | and the benefactor of her father.~The Baron di Piombo was
3 II | attraction~that her old father caused her, as matter of
4 II | refused out of love to~her father and mother, feeling herself
5 III| offer you my savings. My father is rich; I am his only child;
6 III| Come and see me; my father has a fortune--"~ ~"Ginevra,"
7 III| passing at the studio the father and mother of~Ginevra were
8 III| whole heart~belonged to her father, as Piombo's whole heart
9 III| manner the~passions of her father. There lay the sole imperfection
10 III| and passionate,~like her father in his youth.~ ~The Corsican
11 III| the principle against her father; as a child she~forgave
12 III| of the tempests which the father was fond of~exciting, a
13 III| Ginevra, grown wiser than her~father, avoided such scenes. Her
14 III| Ginevra lived with her father and mother~on the footing
15 IV | cried the old man.~ ~"Oh, father, you hurt me!"~ ~Instantly
16 IV | than your parents--"~ ~"Oh, father!"~ ~"Ginevra is preparing
17 IV | he a prince?" asked her father, ironically, in a tone of
18 IV | the mother quail.~ ~"No, father," she said, gently, "he
19 IV | love any man, except your father."~ ~"It does not depend
20 IV | flattered myself," continued her father, "that my Ginevra would
21 IV | You dare to blame your father's love!" exclaimed Piombo,
22 IV | Piombo, his eyes~flashing.~ ~"Father, I don't blame you," replied
23 IV | reckon benefits with your father, Ginevra?" said Piombo,~
24 IV | with us! stay with your father, your old father! I cannot~
25 IV | with your father, your old father! I cannot~have you love
26 IV | await~your liberty."~ ~"But, father, remember that I need not
27 IV | paternal~gentleness.~ ~"Father," she said, in a tender
28 IV | Piombo. "To love you as a father is paradise on earth; who
29 IV | enough to love you?"~ ~"Father," said Ginevra, with a gesture
30 IV | Do you wish to see your father on his~knees, his white
31 IV | unjust from the lips of your father, my daughter. Why~do you
32 IV | gone--you~understand?"~ ~"Father, do you wish me to long
33 IV | parents die~early," said the father, driven to exasperation.~ ~"
34 IV | sprang like a bird on her father's knee, threw~her arms around
35 IV | could never survive you, my father,~my kind father!"~ ~"Oh!
36 IV | you, my father,~my kind father!"~ ~"Oh! my Ginevra, my
37 IV | bella Ginevra!"~ ~And the father played with his daughter
38 IV | admission for Luigi; but her~father, also jesting, refused.
39 IV | having impressed upon her father's mind both~her love for
40 IV | was more caressing~to her father than she had ever been,
41 IV | I have persuaded your father to receive him."~ ~"Oh!
42 IV | would encounter with her father, the young man dared not
43 IV | of his brow was awful.~ ~"Father," said Ginevra, "I bring
44 IV | Ginevra, mortified by her father's incivility, dragged forward
45 IV | the door through which her father~and mother had disappeared.
46 IV | asked Luigi Porta.~ ~"My father," she replied, "never spoke
47 IV | and~burned our house. My father then massacred the whole
48 IV | property. Old Colonna was a father to me; and I bore his name~
49 IV | So long~as you are in my father's house you have nothing
50 IV | from danger to danger. My~father has two Corsicans in his
51 IV | sort of energy, from her~father's house, and did not leave
52 IV | uneasiness. She turned on her father and mother, whom she found
53 IV | placed herself between her father and mother in the~great
54 IV | trembled, and looked at her father anxiously. The struggle~
55 IV | change in the feelings of father and daughter gave to the~
56 IV | repeated Piombo. "If his father had found you in your bed~
57 IV | Porta. You are a~tyrant, my father," she added, after a terrifying
58 IV | thus triumphing over her father, whose~darkling face showed
59 IV | inform Luigi~Porta of her father's severity. A chambermaid,
60 IV | shrewdness of the~youth.~ ~The father and daughter seldom spoke
61 IV | eye when she looked at~her father; reproach sat enthroned
62 IV | attempt to reconcile the father and daughter, by help of~
63 IV | tear a daughter from her father?--"~ ~"Monsieur--"~ ~"Which
64 IV | you refuse me life! Oh! father, never have I loved you
65 IV | humiliate herself before her father. My Luigi,~give me my Luigi,
66 IV | cast you off;~you have no father. My Ginevra Piombo is buried
67 IV | earth!" he cried.~ ~"My father and my mother have cast
68 V | Ginevra was driven from her father's house she went to~ask
69 V | though without forgetting her father's severity.~ ~One morning
70 V | breathe the blessed air of her~father's house, to fling herself
71 V | absence of her parents; her father's wrath seemed present to
72 V | the certificates.~ ~"The father and mother protest," replied
73 V | lived in the presence of her father and mother overcame the
74 V | imagination; she saw her old father alone, or her mother weeping
75 VI | save Ginevra,~and that her father, during his absence, would
76 VI | on~which lay his wife.~ ~"Father! take care of my son, who
77 VI | warm.~ ~"Give my hair to my father, in memory of his Ginevra,"
78 VI | coming. We have~food. Your father will take you home. Prosperity
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