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The Cardinal was impatient to attain the summit of his wishes; but his road lay straight over Conari's grave! Abellino received the sum demanded; the next day the venerable Conari, the Doge's best and dearest friend, the pride and safeguard of the Republic, was no longer numbered among the living.
As for Abellino, he was confined to his bed for a whole month, and when he had partially recovered, he received a hint from his well-wishers to the effect that, until the affair had blown over a little, it would be as well if he took the air somewhere abroad; and that, too, not in any civilized kingdom, for there they would not be very long in nabbing a man like him who had so many creditors and loved to make a stir, but in some nice Oriental empire where he would be out of harm's way.
"Come, come!" said Abellino, "rouse yourselves, lads. Before I say anything, be convinced that you are wide awake, for what I am going to tell you is so strange that you would scarce believe it in a dream." They listened to him with an air of indifference and impatience. "Why, what's the matter now?" said Thomaso, while he stretched himself.
He paused for a moment, then continuing in a dreadful voice, "And when," said he, "thou, Buonarotti, shalt hereafter hear the name of ABELLINO TREMBLE!" Abellino turned away, and left the hard-hearted Venetian. And now rushed the unfortunate wildly through the streets of Venice.
I am content to be your prisoner; and it was with that intent that I came hither. No mortal should have the glory of seizing Abellino. If justice required him to be delivered up, it was necessary that he should be delivered up by himself! Or do ye take Abellino for an ordinary ruffian, who passes his time in skulking from the sbirri, and who murders for the sake of despicable plunder?
Here, give me an inch of room at the table, and I'll try my luck." Fennimore said not a word; he was keeping the bank just then. A few moments later the bank was broken. Abellino won heaps and heaps. "Ah, ah, my friend! the proverb 'Luckless at cards, lucky at love, does not seem to apply to you. Poor Fennimore, God help thee!" Fennimore arose; he would play no more. He was livid with rage.
Manfrone and Lomellino are at supper with the worms. And I have thrown the Doge himself into such a fit of terror that I warrant he will not recover himself easily. Now answer are you content with me, you bloodhounds?" "Next, then, for Flodoardo!" shouted Parozzi. "Flodoardo!" muttered Abellino between his teeth; "hum hum that's not so easy."
He had come, of course, to invite the gentlemen to the funeral. That was the most natural supposition. "I have brought a letter for you, Mr. Bailiff," said Martin, nonchalantly; and, to the great disgust of the steward, he did not even doff his cap before Abellino, who was standing on the balcony. "Look to your cap, you bumpkin! Why don't you doff it, sirrah? Who sent this letter?"
I shall be frightened out of my senses if he comes here." "Noble ladies," said Flodoardo, with a smile, expressing rather sorrow than joy, "you have nothing to apprehend. "Oh, my best friend," she answered, "how shall I express my thanks to you for having thus put an end to my terrors? I shall tremble no more at hearing Abellino named. Rosabella shall now be called the Bravo's Bride no longer."
The banditti exist no longer; the conspirators are in chains; my plans are accomplished; and now, Venetians, if you still think him deserving of it, here stands the bravo Abellino, and you may lead him to the scaffold when you will."
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