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He knocked twice at the porter's entrance, an old woman cautiously opened the door. "Fear not, good aunt," said the gravedigger; "this is the young Lord I spoke to thee of. Thou sayest thou hadst two ladies in the palace, who alone survived of all the lodgers, and their names were Bianca de Medici, and what was the other?" "Irene di Gabrini, a Roman lady.
With a calm and a noble people, the individual ambition of a citizen can never effect evil: to be impatient of chains, is not to be worthy of freedom to murder a magistrate is not to ameliorate the laws. They had, very shortly before, stoned one magistrate, and torn to pieces another. Entitled "Conjuration de Nicolas Gabrini, Dit de Rienzi, Tyran de Rome."
"Irene!" echoed Adrian in surprise, forgetful at the moment that he had before revealed the name of her he sought "Irene Irene di Gabrini, sister of the once renowned Rienzi!" "The same," replied Mariana, quickly; "I know her, as I told you. Nay, Signor, I do not deceive thee.
But I told thee this was the fourth day they left the house, terrified by the deaths within it." "Thou didst so: and was there anything remarkable in the dress of the Signora di Gabrini?" "Yes, I have told thee: a blue mantle, such as I have rarely seen, wrought with silver." "Was the broidery that of stars, silver stars," exclaimed Adrian, "with a sun in the centre?" "It was."
Rienzi, as we call him, was in reality named 'Nicholas Gabrini, the son of Lawrence'; and 'Lawrence, being in Italian abbreviated to 'Rienzo' and preceded by the possessive particle 'of, formed the patronymic by which the man is best known in our language.
"I feared you were sped, and that another had cheated me of my office," said the gravedigger, "seeing that you returned not to the old Prince's palace. You don't know me from the rest of us I see, but I am the one you told to seek " "Irene!" "Yes, Irene di Gabrini; you promised ample reward." "You shall have it." "Follow me." The Becchino strode on, and soon arrived at a mansion.
Lawrence Gabrini kept a wine-shop somewhere in the neighbourhood of the Cenci palace; he seems to have belonged to Anagni, he was therefore by birth a retainer of the Colonna, and his wife was a washer-woman. Between them, moreover, they made a business of selling water from the Tiber, through the city, at a time when there were no aqueducts.
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