" "Where are your facts?" asked the baroness.

" "Impossible!" exclaimed the baroness.

"Nor the contessina," laughed the baroness, completing the sentence.

Hedwig had hitherto liked the baroness, finding in her a woman of a certain artistic sense, combined with a certain originality.

"And that's not all," she said, as she finished the tale of their numerous achievements on land and water, "we've got a real live baroness in our group!"

He at once began to hate the baroness with all the ferocity of which his heart was capable, and with all the calm his bold square face outwardly expressed.

She had a curious fad, this hermit baroness of the big woods.

"In truth," he said, "the Signora Baronessa's lessons consisted chiefly" "In teaching me pronunciation," interrupted the baroness, trying to remove Hedwig's veil and hat, somewhat against the girl's inclination.

"I know Cardegna, and I knew the poor baroness who killed herself because he basely abandoned her.

There stood the beautiful baroness, alone, with all her dark soft things around her, as pale as death, and her eyes swollen sadly with weeping.

Her coming to visit the baroness had been as unpremeditated as it was unexpected that morning, and she bitterly repented it; but being of good blood and heart, she acted as boldly as she could, and showed no little tact in making Nino sing, and thus cutting short a painful conversation.

"Tell me, do you love the baroness?"

The carnival was going on, where no Viennese lady, so the baroness declared, would think of being seen, because confetti-throwing was only resorted to by the canaille (and officers and husbands of high-born ladies, who went there with their little friends of the ballet and chorus), but where we did go, contrary to all precedent, persuading the baroness to make up a smart party and "go slumming."

But since you are so civil, I will tell you that you are arrested on suspicion of having poisoned that Russian baroness, with the long name, at whose house you have been so intimate.

"Of course you would not have recognized her, baroness.

"And what follows from all this?" replied the baroness with a forced smile of contempt.

The ladies had all gone to bed save the baroness.

Since the day after the début Nino had not seen the baroness.

" He courteously conducted the baroness to the carriage, and they parted, to all appearance, friends.

Johnny, my son, read 'Three Weeks' that time, and he speak the baroness, 'You jus' like that woman in the book.'

When Nino realised what she said he came forward and stood near the count, facing the baroness, his arms folded on his breast, as though to challenge accusation.