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Updated: June 6, 2025
From time to time one or the other of us would open our eyes drowsily and wonder, but sleep was heavy on us both, and our minds were sunk in calm like old hulls in the dark depths of the sea where there are no storms. We neither of us really woke until, at the bottom of the hill which rises into Acquapendente, the oxen stopped. This halt woke us up; first me and then my companion.
He consented to abide by my arrangements, if he could have the pleasure of paying the fellow a visit, as he wanted to know him. After this sensible decision and a good supper I went to my lonely couch without any regret, for I was happy in the consciousness of having done a good action. We started at day-break the next morning, and when we reached Acquapendente we resolved to post to Rome.
I was happy, and I had reason to believe that Betty was happy also. In the morning, we had just fallen asleep, when the vettuyino knocked at the door. I dressed myself hastily to see him. "Listen," I said, "it is absolutely necessary for me to recover my pocket-book, and I hope to find it at Acquapendente."
Little Bianca's father, or possibly her grandfather, must have been some such Jem, Jack, or Bob "of the Foundlings," and left no other patronymic to his race. Quinto Lalli fell in with the child one day in the dirty and miserable little town of Acquapendente, just on the Roman side of the frontier line dividing the Papal territory from Tuscany, as he was travelling from Florence to Rome.
Betty was tranquil enough till we got there, and heard that the count had gone on to Acquapendente with the two postillions at his heels; she seemed quite vexed. I told her that all would be well; that the count knew how to defend himself; but she only answered me with a deep sigh.
I was happy, and I had reason to believe that Betty was happy also. In the morning, we had just fallen asleep, when the vettuyino knocked at the door. I dressed myself hastily to see him. "Listen," I said, "it is absolutely necessary for me to recover my pocket-book, and I hope to find it at Acquapendente."
The terms which this embassy was instructed to demand as fair and equitable, were as follows: That for the future no imperial agent should exercise pretended imperial prerogatives in Rome, without the foreknowledge of the Pope; that no levies on the domains of the Church should be made by the Emperor, except when he was crowned; that the Italian bishops should not take oaths of particular, but only of general homage; that the possessions of the Roman church, and the revenues of Ferrara, Massa, Fighernola, of the Matilda inheritance, of the country between Acquapendente and Rome, of Spoleto, Sardinia, and Corsica, all acknowledged in the middle ages as indisputable feoffs of the Holy See, should be restored.
He consented to abide by my arrangements, if he could have the pleasure of paying the fellow a visit, as he wanted to know him. After this sensible decision and a good supper I went to my lonely couch without any regret, for I was happy in the consciousness of having done a good action. We started at day-break the next morning, and when we reached Acquapendente we resolved to post to Rome.
I pressed her tenderly and kissed her, and that was all She seemed grateful for my self-restraint. The horses were put in, and after I had paid the landlord for the supper, which he swore he had prepared for us, we started. We reached Acquapendente in three quarters of an hour, and we found the madcap count in high spirits.
"And the great Signor medico, Acquapendente, will be made this day Cavalière of the Republic, since he hath had the wonderful fortune to save the life of our Padre Maestro Paolo; for it is well known there was little hope of matins or vespers more for him, the night the maledetti bravi left the stiletto in his face!"
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