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"With all my heart," replied the younger lad: "and I consider that your excellency has done me a great favour by communicating to me the history of your life. You have thereby made it impossible for me to conceal mine, and I will hasten to relate it as briefly as possible. Here it is, then: "I was born at Pedroso, a village situate between Salamanca and Medina del Campo.
In fact it was chiefly for that reason, and to refresh ourselves from the long continued marches, that we were now delaying on our southward route. On again resuming our march, we arrived in four or five days at a place called Campo Mayor, where we caught sight of the enemy, but only in marching order towards Badajoz.
Only a few years previously he had seen Giordano Bruno lured to Rome and burned alive on the Campo dei Fiori.
Fashionable Streets of the City. Tradesmen's Signs. Bankrupt Condition of Traders. The Spanish Array. Exiled Patriots. Arrival of Recruits. The Garrote. A Military Execution. Cuban Milk Dealers. Exposure of Domestic Life. Living in the Open Air. The Campo Santo of Havana. A Funeral Cortége. Punishing Slaves. Campo de Marte. Hotel Telegrafo. Environs of the City. Bishop's Garden.
As brothers we moved together; to the dawn that advanced, to the stars that fled; rendering thanks to God in the highest that, having hid His face through one generation behind thick clouds of War, once again was ascending, from the Campo Santo of Waterloo was ascending, in the visions of Peace; rendering thanks for thee, young girl! whom having overshadowed with His ineffable passion of death, suddenly did God relent, suffered thy angel to turn aside His arm, and even in thee, sister unknown! shown to me for a moment only to be hidden for ever, found an occasion to glorify His goodness.
Therefore, that very evening, a funeral procession was formed, which moved by torchlight up the Grand Canal, along the Riva, past the blank walls of the Arsenal, to the Campo before San Pietro in Castello. Elena lay beneath the black felze in one gondola, with a priest beside her praying, and other boats followed bearing mourners.
She had never been so lonely in all her days as in that evil-smelling tenement in the Campo Santa Maria Formosa. "Now run and dress," advised La Signorina. "Let me dream a little more, while the sun sets. I can dream a pleasant dream sometimes." And indeed the dream was not unpleasant, for her thoughts went back to that night in New York. Did he really think of her, then?
He painted long ago the façade of the house of the Loredani on the Campo di S. Stefano, with scenes very pleasingly coloured in fresco and executed in a beautiful manner. He painted, likewise, that of the Bernardi at S. Polo, and another behind S. Rocco, which is a very good work.
My grandfather, believing his life endangered by his enemy, planted spies upon him. He employed some of the numerous banditti who sought protection in his service, and after some weeks past in waiting for an opportunity, they seized Henry della Campo, and brought him secretly to this castle.
So managing to speak to the attendant, when he was at a far part of the gallery, he learned from him that the girl's name was Paolina Foscarelli; that the old woman was, the officer believed, her aunt; that her name was Orsola Steno; and that they lived together at No. 8 in the Campo San Donato.
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