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It was after Amadeo had thrown down his crown, exclaiming, "A son of Savoy does not wear a crown on sufferance!" that the small party of Republicans which Prim had said did not exist, and which had in fact only become a party at all during the disastrous period of uncertainty between the expulsion of Isabel II. and the election of the Italian prince edged its way to the front, and Castelar became the head of something much worse than a paper constitution a republic of visionaries.
She said that Amadeo had got into some kind of trouble with his employers, had been discharged and had gone to Argentina, for there he had heard engineers got excellent pay. After that, she had decided to leave Madrid, where food and lodging were very dear. She ended her tale judiciously: "As soon as I hear from Amadeo that he's got a good job, I'm going out there to him."
Thus it will be plain to the Reader that a Knight of Malta is a kind of Medley of Seaman, Swashbuckler, and Saint Admiral Benbow, Field-Marshal Wade, and Friar Tuck all rolled up into one. I did become acquainted with one of these Holy Roystering Cavalieros, by the name of Don Ercolo Amadeo Sparafucile di San Lorenzo, that was a perfect Model of all these Characteristics.
"I'm in a hurry. We'll see each other to-morrow!" He saluted, and walked away. Amadeo Zureda, with Rafaela at his right and Manolo at his left, quitted the station. "Is the town very far away?" asked he. "Hardly two kilometers," she answered. "All right then, let's walk." Slowly they made their way down the road that stretched, winding, between two vast reaches of brown, plowed land.
I played at two concerts, and to- morrow I am to play at another. When I have finished this letter, I am going to complete a symphony that I have begun. The aria is finished. "WOLFGANGO in Germany. "AMADEO MOZART in Italy. Naples, May 19, 1770. Vi prego di scrivermi presto e tutti i giorni di posta.
He was always writing orders to Amadeo to buy marbles and hurry on the work, always urging the prior to hasten the completion of the church, or inquiring in Florence and Rome for new masters to paint altar-pieces for the Certosa.
Perhaps, if one who loved Amadeo were bidden to point out his masterpiece, he would lead the way at once to this. The space is small; yet it includes the whole tragedy of the Passion. Christ is lying dead among the women on his mother's lap, and there are pitying angels in the air above. One woman lifts his arm, another makes her breast a pillow for his head.
He had afterwards been employed at Bergamo, where the Colleoni Chapel and the effigy of the great Condottiere's young daughter, the sleeping virgin Medea, still bear witness to his poetic invention and rare decorative skill. One of Lodovico's first acts after his return to Milan had been to recall Amadeo to Pavia, and in 1490, this gifted artist was appointed Capo maestro of the Certosa works.
"What do you want, anyhow?" she demanded, humble yet resentful. "Come to bed!" She obeyed. Many kisses sounded, given her by the smith. After a while the man's voice asked in an endearing yet overmastering way: "Now, then, are you going to be good?" Amadeo Zureda came back a couple of days later, eminently well pleased. His boy had played the part of a regular little man during the whole run.
But, anyhow, they cut five years off my time. So there are only six years more between us." Regularly the letters came and went between Rafaela and the prisoner at Ceuta. Two years more drew to their close. But evil fortune had not yet grown weary of stamping its heel on Amadeo Zureda's honest shoulders.
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