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By the help of Agostino Balderini, Carlo Ammiani, and others, the aristocratic and the republican sections of the conspiracy were brought near enough together to permit of a common action between them, though the maintaining of such harmony demanded an extreme and tireless delicacy of management. The presence of the Chief, whom we have seen on the Motterone, was claimed by other cities of Italy.
A Lucchese bishop, seeing this, said to the groom: 'Do you not know who that man is? The groom replied to me: 'Excuse me, gentleman; I have orders to do this. I went home, and wrote as follows to the Pope: 'Most blessed Father, I have been turned out of the palace to-day by your orders; wherefore I give you notice that from this time forward, if you want me, you must look for me elsewhere than at Rome. I sent this letter to Messer Agostino, the steward, to give it to the Pope.
Agostino was true to his promise next day. He brought her nearer to what she had to face, though he did not help her vision much. Carlo had gone before sunrise. They sat on the terrace above the lake, screened from the sunlight by thick myrtle bushes.
The panelling of the main cabin was painted in white and gold, and presented a very handsome appearance, and on the door of every stateroom was an exceedingly well-painted picture of some saint renowned in history evidently the owners of the Agostino Rombo were of pious minds. Underneath one of these pictures, that of St. Margaret of Hungary, was scribbled in pencil, "Maggie is my fancy.
Agostino smoked his loosely-rolled cigarettes, and Vittoria sipped chocolate and looked upward to the summit of Motterone, with many thoughts and images in her mind. He commenced by giving her a love-message from Carlo. "Hold fast to it that he means it: conduct is never a straight index where the heart's involved," said the chuckling old man; "or it is not in times like ours.
At this moment the conference of the two was interrupted by a knocking at the door, and Agostino Sarelli entered, pale and disordered. "How is this?" he said, hastily. "What devils' carnival is this which hath broken loose in Florence? Every good thing is gone into dens and holes, and every vile thing that can hiss and spit and sting is crawling abroad.
"Whereas I am one who attempted holiness through excess of error." "I had believed you so, so...O Agostino!" It was a little wail of pain. "Set me a penance," I implored her. "What penance can I set you? Will any penance restore to me my shattered faith?" I groaned miserably and covered my face with my hands.
In Borgo Piano, under the projection of a house, there is a shrine by the hand of Parri, within which is an Annunciation in fresco, which is much extolled; and in S. Agostino, for the Company of the Puraccioli, he made in fresco a very beautiful picture of S. Catherine, virgin and martyr.
It was not very deep, and Agostino, jumping down into it, stooped and lifted out what seemed to be a dead body dressed in its usual every-day clothes which he flung down upon the ground beside the hole.
The poor child, overcome with fatigue and benumbed by the cold, had given out entirely that night, in spite of her valiant efforts to keep up with Agostino, and he had at last picked her up in his arms and carried her for a while she was but a light burden hoping to find some sort of shelter soon. "What can be the meaning of this?" he said to Chiquita.
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