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As on a former occasion, so now they profited by the mistakes of their antagonists. Three chief men of their own party, Diotisalvi Neroni, Agnolo Acciaiuoli, and Luca Pitti, determined to shake off the yoke of their masters, and to repay the Medici for what they owed by leading them to ruin. Niccolo Soderini, a patriot, indignant at the slow enslavement of his country, joined them.
Besides, we have been spoilt by familiarity with an older and more powerful school, by knowledge of a few great masterpieces, for complete appreciation of such a work. But it was different four hundred years ago; and Domenico Neroni stood long and entranced before the group.
The workshop of Neroni, when he had one of his own, was full of cobwebs and dust, littered with the remains of frugal and unsavoury meals, and resolutely closed to the rich and noble persons in whose company Leonardo delighted.
For the situation which you have lately held I do not think you are well suited. 'And what, my lord, has been my fault? 'That Signora Neroni is one fault, said Mrs Proudie; 'and a very abominable fault she is; very abominable, and very disgraceful. Fie, Mr Slope, fie! You an evangelical clergyman indeed! 'My lord, I desire to know for what fault I am turned out of your lordship's house.
Why she had chosen Paulo Neroni, a man of no birth and no property, a mere captain in the Pope's guard, one who had come up to Milan either simply as an adventurer or else as a spy, a man of harsh temper and oily manners, mean in figure, swarthy in face, and so false in words as to be hourly detected, need not now be told. When the moment for doing so came, she had probably no alternative.
But there was, nevertheless, an under-stratum of joy in all this which buoyed her up wondrously. She tried if she could disbelieve what Madame Neroni had said to her; but she found that she could not. It was true; it must be true. She could not, would not, did not doubt it. On one point she fully resolved to follow the advice given her.
'Ah, come now, that is something like. I thought you would not be so unfeeling. 'You are more beautiful, perhaps more clever. 'Thank you, thank you, Mr Arabin. I knew that you and I should be friends. 'But 'Not a word further. I will not hear a word further. If you talk till midnight, you cannot improve what you have said. 'But Madame Neroni, Mrs Bold
Be that as it may, little had been said about her husband, but that little had made it clearly intelligible to the family that Signor Neroni was to be seen and heard of no more. There was no question as to readmitting the poor, ill-used beauty to her old family rights, no question as to adopting her infant daughter beneath the Stanhope roof-tree. Though heartless, the Stanhopes were not selfish.
The expression of feeling may be exaggerated, and little consistent with the flattery with which the poem opens; yet even this flattery, when carefully read, seems fuller of satire than of praise: "Quod si non aliam venturo fata Neroni Invenere viam, magnoque aeterna parantur Regna deis, caelumque suo servire Tonanti Non nisi saevorum potuit post bella Gigantum; Iam nihil O superi querimur!
"That's thrue; but there were three O'Malleys before you. Godfrey O'Malley, that construed Calve Neroni to Nero the Calvinist, ha! ha! ha! was cautioned in 1788." "My uncle, I believe, sir." "More than likely, from what I hear of you, Ex uno, etc. I see your name every day on the punishment roll. Late hours, never at chapel, seldom at morning lecture.
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