Monday, January 24, 2022

Chapter 16

The announcement made in Venice

Every now and then Gigia would start looking for a husband for me.

"It is a pity that the handsome Count Tinker Robilant, so polite and honest, is too young for you. Count Luigino, good and faithful, would suit me. But perhaps Count Lodovico Valmarana, who has already inherited from an aunt, would be preferable. Baron Nanuck is fine in money, but he is too rustic. Better then that funny guy Duke Toto del B., even if he is a stranger."

"He is not a duke." I had to correct her every time. 

"And his father is a duke, all the same." decided Gigia. "But my favorite is still Count Guido, and as handsome as an archangel!"

"Forget it. He hasn't noticed yet that I exist." 

It was true. I have always remembered the traditional raid of the Brandolins in the living room while the Christmas tree was flaming with candles: Carlo with a lively and sharp mind, Nini de Cadaval with a melodious French accent, their four children, Brando, Tiberto, Guido and Graziella, all blond and beautiful, who, friends of my older brothers, considered me and Jackie as two uninteresting appendages of the Ivancich family. I was used to this, it was normal.

I had not found it normal, indeed I was a little offended by it, that one day Guido, meeting me in the corridor of Calle del Rimedio, without even saying hello to me, had...

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