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In a dim way it had got into his brain that Hansen had taken sides with the bear against him and Tomaso, and he thirsted for vengeance. At the same time, he felt that Tomaso had deserted him. Day by day, as he brooded, the desire for escape a desire which he had never known before grew in his heart. Vaguely, perhaps, he dreamed that he would go and find Tomaso.
Moreover, he had never acted save under the impulse of violent emotion, but contented himself with fine words vague, indeterminate wishes. "Brother Ambrogio," replied Tomaso, all tranquillity, "the Pope is the Pope, and wisdom lies in putting oneself on his side, because he will always be the Pope that is to say, the stronger. For my part, if we had to vote to-morrow I'd vote for him."
'You know, my lord, said Tomaso,'the state of things at your departure; and that all our glorious designs, for the liberty of all France were discovered, and betrayed by some of those little rascals, that great men are obliged to make use of in the greatest designs: upon whose confession you were proscribed, myself, this gentleman, and several others: it was our good fortunes to escape untaken, and yours to fall first in the messenger's hands, and carried to the Bastille, even from whence you had the luck to escape: but it was not so with Cesario. 'Heavens, cried Philander, 'the Prince, I hope is not taken. 'Not so neither, replied Tomaso, 'nor should you wonder you have received no news of him, in a long time, since forty thousand crowns being offered for his head, or to any thing that could discover him, it would have exposed him to have written to any body, he being beset on all sides with spies from the King; so that it was impossible to venture a letter, without very great hazard of his life.
"Why not ask them here, Senor Tomaso?" queried Don Luis, in his purring, half affectionate voice. "Here at your table?" protested Reade. "But this is not dinner. This is a mere business luncheon," replied Don Luis, with another smile. "Yet I would like to discuss some of the samples with you, Don Luis," Tom explained.
He risked it anyhow, ran up another storey, put the roof on, and came in for the credit of the whole miracle. I expect Tomaso is at the bottom of that idea of yours, Aunt Caroline. He would naturally give the reporters that view." Mrs. Portheris listened with a tolerance as badly put on as any garment she was wearing.
The widow gave a little cry of fear, and Rosa came out into the sunlight. There the three stood, rigid, watching Tomaso contemplatively biting his lip in the middle of the sun-lit road. In a moment the suspense was over the worst was realized.
The dominie lashed his little steed, and up hill and down dale we kept on. Probably Tomaso would have left us to pursue our course alone and find our own way, had not my friend wisely kept back a portion of the price of the horse, lest such a trick might be played us.
Tomaso, before the day was over, changed his garments and abandoned crutch and stick, and when he turned out with flaxen-dyed hair and spectacles, and presented himself at the other great entrance of the prison, as a German traveller who desired to go over the place, no one could possibly have imagined it to be the old cripple whose paternal lamentation had so touched the doorkeeper's heart.
Orso, after saying a few words of excuse for Colomba, repeated that he now believed Tomaso to be the sole culprit. The prefect had risen to take his leave. "If it were not so late," said he, "I would suggest your coming over with me to fetch Miss Nevil's letter. At the same time you might repeat to M. Barricini what you have just said to me, and the whole thing would be settled."
Of the first kind of testimony I shall here give two instances, which may be immediately useful in fixing in the readers mind the epoch above indicated for the commencement of decline. § XL. I must again refer to the importance which I have above attached to the death of Carlo Zeno and the doge Tomaso Mocenigo.
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