But, no sooner, had he gone, than away went her Highness to Madame de Moeurs, "a marvellous wise and well-spoken gentlewoman and a grave," and informed her and the Count, with some trifling exaggeration, that the vile Englishman, secretary to the odious Leicester, had just been there, abusing and Calumniating the Countess in most lewd and abominable fashion.
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This is the truth, and nothing beyond it has to the honour of the Italians been asserted, whether to the disgrace or credit of their enemies; so that while denying that they ill-treat Austrian prisoners, they are ready to state that theirs are well treated in Verona, without thinking of slandering and Calumniating as the Vienna papers have done.
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"I fear there was a good deal of warmth shown on both sides," she said, feeling that she was Calumniating the man, as to whose warmth she had heard nothing.
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