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The force was divided into seven companies, the first entrusted to the ardent Nino Bixio, who acted in a general way as second-in-command through both the Sicilian and Neapolitan campaigns, and the seventh to Benedetto Cairoli, whose mother contributed a large sum of money as well as three of her sons to the freeing of Southern Italy.
I hid behind the door with my knife, and when the door opened, I struck at the first person I saw " "And it was your mother!" "Ah! I see your memory is returning. Yes, it was my mother; but how did you know it?" "I had seen her in the gorge, and she had told me her story and implored me to save her son." "And did she tell you her name?" asked Benedetto, with some uneasiness.
Come, speak, let us also listen to you! To-day it is curiosity with us, to-morrow, who knows? we may feel the right spirit. Come to Rome!" "Give me your name," said Benedetto. The other offered him his card. His name was Elia Viterbo. Benedetto looked at him curiously. "Yes, indeed," he said, "I am a Jew; but these two baptised ones are no better Christians than I am.
He embraced the man, and years afterwards the herder, Nazzareno Mercuri, used to tell that while Benedetto held him in his arms, he, Nazzareno did not seem to be himself; that his blood first turned to ice and then to fire; that his heart beat hard, very hard, as it did the first time he received Christ in the Sacrament; that a terrible headache which had tormented him for two days suddenly disappeared; that then he had realised he was in the arms of a saint, a worker of miracles; and that he had fallen on his knees at his feet!
"All right," he said, "I was a little provoked with you, but I will help you now." Esperance uttered an exclamation of thankfulness. "Then let us hasten. When I have found Jane, ask me for my life if you choose." Benedetto opened the door. "Go on, sir, I will follow you." And as they went out, Benedetto muttered: "You little know what you say. Your life is indeed mine, and I mean to have it."
"No, on the contrary, they wished to assassinate him. You know that it was in leaving his house that M. de Caderousse was murdered by his friend Benedetto. You know that the famous waistcoat was found in his house, containing the letter which stopped the signature of the marriage-contract. Do you see the waistcoat? There it is, all blood-stained, on the desk, as a testimony of the crime."
"They took the names of Giovanni and Benedetto; and Giovanni, or John, as it is in English, was afterward called Fra Angelico by his brethren because his life was so holy, or because, as some say, he painted angels more pure and beautiful than have ever been pictured before or since.
Yes; afflicted and glad, but he could not communicate the cause of his gladness to Benedetto, The Divine Word would have no value for Benedetto did he not interpret it for himself. "Not glad," he said, "but at peace. We understand each other, do we not? And now prepare yourself to listen to my last words, which I hope you will cherish."
"This is beyond all comparison," said Guidobaldo, taking the great oval dish up reverently in his hands. "Maestro Benedetto, I do felicitate you indeed that you should possess such a pupil. He will be a glory to our beloved Urbino."
For the Abbot de' Panichi he executed the panel-picture of the high-altar in the Church of S. Salvi, without the Porta alla Croce, painting therein Our Lady, S. Giovanni Gualberto, S. Salvi, S. Bernardo, a Cardinal of the Uberti family, and S. Benedetto the Abbot, and, at the sides, S. Batista and S. Fedele in armour, in two niches on either hand of the picture, which had a rich frame; and in the predella are several scenes, with little figures, from the Life of S. Giovanni Gualberto.
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