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"Ebbene!" he continued, in an impressive, awestruck whisper. "He had to come out of his bed at night Santissima Maria! and it was the ghosts of all the people buried in San Marcuolo who dragged him and kicked him to teach him better, because he wanted to make believe the dead stayed in their graves! So where was the use of his Latin?"
"Don Ambrogio just wants to cram us boys," Beppo confessed, in a confidential tone; "but it's no use knowing too much, even for a priest. For once, at San Marcuolo true as true, faith of the Madonna! one of those priests told the people one day in his sermon that there were no ghosts!" The boy crossed himself and drew a quick breath, which increased the interest of his auditors.
But the Consultore is the friend of Venice; he is their friend coming each day to talk to the people. "It is not true that great trouble has come upon Venice, for Fra Paolo makes it all quite plain, and he knows everything," they say; "our padre in San Marcuolo is like a bimbo to him! The Jesuit Fathers went too soon, and might have spared themselves the burning of their papers and their treasure.
"The church is filled with great ones, and Mass is going on," a small scout reported; "and that was Don Ambrogio Morelli that just went in with a lady our old Abbé from the school at San Marcuolo Beppo goes there now! And don't some of us remember Pierino always studying and good for nothing, and not knowing enough to wade out of a rio? The Madonna will have hard work to look after him!"
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