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Updated: June 22, 2025
'Markos, said Trombin, 'apply your excellent sight and your money-lender's intelligence to this marvellous ring, with which unfortunate circumstances now oblige me to part. It belonged to my sainted aunt, the Abbess of Acquaviva, who left it to me with her blessing when I was young and innocent.
He blessed me, adding that I was not dispensed from fasting. That very evening, at the cardinal's assembly, I found that the news of my dialogue with the Pope was already known. Everybody was anxious to speak to me. I felt flattered, but I was much more delighted at the joy which Cardinal Acquaviva tried in vain to conceal.
The courier did not find Acquaviva at Rome. That Cardinal was already far away on the road to Parma, so that there were no means of retreat. Acquaviva was received with great honour and much magnificence; he made his demand, but delayed the espousals as long as he could, and this caused much remark.
I shall want her to take a letter for me." While Colomba was superintending the preparation of his breakfast, Orso went up to his own room and wrote the following note: "You must be in a hurry to meet me, and I am no less eager. We can meet at six o'clock to-morrow morning in the valley of Acquaviva. I am a skilful pistol-shot, so I do not suggest that weapon to you.
Besides these Neapolitan noblemen who have enlisted of late as privates, the Italian army now encamped on the banks of the Po and of the Mincio may boast of two Colonnas, a prince of Somma, two Barons Renzi, an Acquaviva, of the Duke of Atri, two Capece, two Princes Buttera, etc.
He soon came up again, informed me that peace was signed, and that I would be served immediately. "Will you not take supper with me?" "No, but I will keep you company." I accepted his offer, and to learn who he was, I told him my name, giving myself the title of secretary to Cardinal Acquaviva.
Acquaviva, when the two came to the wood-pile, said laughingly: "Does the cook think we are babies? Why, we can each carry twenty or thirty of such little pieces of wood." "To be sure we can," Stanislaus answered. "But do you think God wants us to carry twenty or thirty pieces now? The cook said two or three, and the cook just at present takes the place of God to command us."
"Perhaps I may; but in that case you must come and see me often, and never conceal from me anything, you understand, not anything, of what interests you, or of what happens to you." "Don Lelio has likewise given me a letter for the Cardinal Acquaviva." "I congratulate you; the cardinal's influence in Rome is greater even than that of the Pope." "Must I deliver the letter at once?"
Cardinal Acquaviva was made acquainted with these circumstances at nine this morning through the auditor you met in my room, and he promised to have the person sent away unless she belonged to his household.
"Perhaps I may; but in that case you must come and see me often, and never conceal from me anything, you understand, not anything, of what interests you, or of what happens to you." "Don Lelio has likewise given me a letter for the Cardinal Acquaviva." "I congratulate you; the cardinal's influence in Rome is greater even than that of the Pope." "Must I deliver the letter at once?"
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