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Again, it was he who, to prevent any interference on the part of the patriotic Abbe Pisoni, the young woman's confessor and the artisan of her marriage, had urged her to take the same spiritual director as her aunt, Father Lorenza, a handsome Jesuit with clear and kindly eyes, whose confessional in the chapel of the Collegio Germanico was incessantly besieged by penitents.
Edoardo Mascheroni's early laurels were won as a conductor, but in 1901 he sprang into fame as the composer of 'Lorenza, an opera which has met with much success in various cities of Spain and Spanish America as well as in Italy.
Men talk and reason about the storm and pressure which is spreading through the world, and finally will reduce every thing to storm the eternal and undying bliss of wealth, and press on for gold." "To think that we have lost every thing!" cried Lorenza, springing up and stamping with her silken-shod foot; "every thing is lost that I have been years gaining, by hypocrisy, deception, and coquetry.
These were, besides myself, Fra Gervasio, my tutor; Messer Giorgio, the castellan, a bald-headed old man long since past the fighting age and who in times of stress would have been as useful for purposes of defending Mondolfo as Lorenza, my mother's elderly woman, who sat below him at the board; he was toothless, bowed, and decrepit, but he was very devout as he had need to be, seeing that he was half dead already and this counted with my mother above any other virtue.2
Would that I could forget, and become again pure and innocent, blest in my affection, simple in my tastes, and without wants! But no, it is too late! I cannot retreat, the demons will not be driven out; to them my soul belongs, and I must fulfil my destiny! Awake, Lorenza, awake!" Her beautiful form shook with fright; she started, opened her eyes, demanding, "What is the matter? Who is here?"
"It is I, Lorenza," he said, sadly; "I was obliged to awaken you, to tell you something important." "Are the pursuers here? Have they discovered us? Are they coming to take us to prison?" "No, no; be quiet, Lorenza, no one has discovered us!" "Quiet!" she repeated, with a scornful laugh.
"Yes, we have a hundred louis d'ors and a diamond ring from the mistress of this house." "Give it to me," cried Lorenza. "Not the ring, Lorenza, but the diamond, so soon as I have a false stone set in the ring which I must keep as a ring in the chain which will bind this woman to our cause." "Was I not astonishingly like her? Was it not almost unmistakable?" "Yes, wonderfully deceptive.
At last that hideous repast came to an end in prayers of thanksgiving whose immoderate length was out of all proportion to the fare provided. The castellan shuffled forth upon the arm of the seneschal; Lorenza followed at a sign from my mother, and we three Gervasio, my mother, and I were left alone. And here let me say a word of Fra Gervasio.
We left his arms free, but to the palm of each hand we bound a stone as large as my head. The same to each foot. "Then I said, 'Lie down! Hands and legs straight out! It is only right that a Scorpion should die from his own rock, and taking some souvenirs with him. "I took his arms and Nino his feet. We swung him three times, and let him fly into the darkness. "And Lorenza never forgave us.
Again, it was he who, to prevent any interference on the part of the patriotic Abbe Pisoni, the young woman's confessor and the artisan of her marriage, had urged her to take the same spiritual director as her aunt, Father Lorenza, a handsome Jesuit with clear and kindly eyes, whose confessional in the chapel of the Collegio Germanico was incessantly besieged by penitents.
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