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Concetta “Concetta had her back to him; she was embroidering and, not hearing her father’s steps, did not even turn” (pg 101, after Prince arranged Tancredi’s marriage)

“The very sound of her own voice led her back to the comfortless present, such a brusque change from a secret warm climate to an open frozen one was most painful” (pg 110, referring to Tancredi’s arrival-proposed already) “the kiss which Concetta denied Cavriaghi” pg 117

From Tancredi’s view “Why has she begun treating him so badly, then? Turning on him at the Holy Ghost Covenant; and so many times afterwards. The Leopard, yes, the Leopard, of course; but there must be limits even for the proud beast” (pg126)

Tancredi to Cavriaghi “I’m afraid she has too high an opinion of herself” pg 127

“ she was pretending to listen though worrying really about the look of her cousin” pg 39

“…but the little hand in black lace mittens which the young count had hoped to see remained in Concetta’s lap” pg 40

“Tancredi with on his right Concetta…though its only purpose, alas, was to save her from potholes and ruts” pg 43 “ All were calm and contented. All except Concetta…but under her blue bodice her heart was being torn to shreds; the violent Salina blood came surging up in her, and banish a smooth forehead she found herself brooding over day-dreams of poisoning” pg 59
“she wanted to kill as much as she wanted to die”

“difference in breeding” pg 60
“exquisite to Tancredi and repulsive to Concetta”

“Concetta with face aflame and two little tears in the corners of her lids. “Tancredi, one tells nasty tales like that to a confessor not to young ladies at table; anyway when I’m there.” And she turned her back on him. Pg 61

“Concetta turned to her cousin with her sweetest smile: “Tancredi, we passed a beam of wood lying in front of Ginesta’s house. Go and fetch it, it’ll get you in all the quicker” pg 64
“Concetta interrupted again, acidly now, and without a smile “Let him be father, he’s only joking, he’s been in one convent already, that ought to be enough for him; it’s not right for him to enter this one of ours”

“Concetta talked to the nuns with her usual withdrawn kindliness” pg 65

“Angelica’s beauty putting the shy grace of his Concetta in the shade” pg 69

“Only the dos were absolutely trustworthy and that only because they lacked articulate speech” pg 78

“with all others you must be the future Princess of Falconceri, superior to many, equal to all” pg 167

“A twinge crossed his heart: the thought of Concetta’s haughty yet defeated eyes” (about Tancredi + angelica marrying “The Salina chapel was the best known in the city” pg 195 “Reluctance on the part of the Salina ladies to let anyone be present at the sacred rites who was outside their close family circle” pg 195

“Concetta was not the eldest; but the struggle for power which has been hinted at earlier had ended some time ago with the rout of her adversaries, so no one would now have dared contest her functions od mistress of the house” pg 196

“Resentful line above her nose, gave her an air that was authoritarian almost imperial” pg 196 “that; the road she had taken then led her here, to this desert not even inhabited by extinct love or spent rancour” pg 205
“How often out unforgettable Tancredi used to talk of you!”

“The sudden revelation penetrated her mind slowly and did not make her suffer much at first…she began seeing more clearly and so suffering more” “forgotten the pain of the disease…now the wounds of bitter disappointment that has become almost a part of history, so much part in fact that it’s fiftieth anniversary was being celebrated officially” pg 207 “Upheld a sense of martyrdom, of wrong endured, of resentment against a father who had neglected her, and of torturing emotion on account of that other dead man. Second-hand feelings which have formed the skeleton of her whole mode of thought were also collapsing.”
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