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The sailor had no doubt at all that Orso was coming back to Corsica per fare la vendetta, such was his expression, and he affirmed that before long there would be fresh meat to be seen in the village of Pietranera.
"In case of pressing need," said Orso, "a few gold coins are very useful. "No money between you and me, sir," said Brandolaccio resolutely. "In the world money is everything," remarked Castriconi, "but in the maquis, all a man need care for is a brave heart, and a gun that carries true." "I don't want to leave you without giving you something to remember me by," persisted Orso.
On the following day he lay in wait for Tommaso near the main entrance of the inn, where the Via dell' Orso meets the Via di Monte Brianzo, which then bore the name of Santa Lucia.
Soon after he got up and took his leave, bearing with him Miss Lydia's promise that she would go and call on his wife at the prefecture. When he had departed: "I had to come to Corsica," said Miss Lydia, "to find out what a prefect is like. This one strikes me as rather amiable." "For my part," said Orso, "I can't say as much.
Fully expecting a second volley, Orso moved a few steps, to place himself behind one of the burned trees that still stood upright in the maquis. Thus sheltered, he put his gun between his knees, and hurriedly reloaded it. Meanwhile his left arm began to hurt him horribly, and felt as if it were being dragged down by a huge weight. What had become of his adversaries? He could not understand.
She was already lifting the trunk alone, when Orso came hastily to her assistance. "There is something for you in this trunk, my dear Colomba," said he. "You must excuse the modesty of my gifts. A lieutenant on half-pay hasn't a very well-lined purse!" As he spoke, he opened the trunk, and took out of it a few gowns, a shawl, and some other things likely to be useful to a young girl.
Amid all the angry voices Colomba was heard telling her satellites that before they went to work she would give each man of them a large glass of anisette. Unluckily, or rather luckily, the impression she had expected to produce by her own cruel treatment of the poor horse was largely lost on Orso.
And before the wall that had been round the Madonna was pulled down, Perino copied the figure of Orso dell' Anguillara, the Roman Senator who had crowned M. Francesco Petrarca on the Campidoglio, and who was at the feet of that Madonna.
We must send somebody down to warn them and stop them before they start." "Do you mean to say you would send a messenger out in such weather, to have him and your letter both swept away by a torrent? How I pity those poor bandits in this storm! Do you know what you ought to do, Orso.
Suddenly he gave vent to a low growl, sprang at a bound over the wall, and almost instantly reappeared upon its crest, whence he gazed steadily at Orso with eyes that spoke surprise as clearly as a dog's may do it. Then he sniffed again, this time toward the other inclosure, the wall of which he also crossed.
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