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But through that dimness there shone the fierce unspoken question that had leapt to them at the sight of his cousin 'Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? Eleanor was the first to break the silence. 'You have had a long pilgrimage to find us, she said quietly. 'Yet perhaps Torre Amiata might have occurred to you. It was you that praised it that proposed to find quarters at the convent.
A hot, lonely, thirsty land the heart of Italy where the rocks are honeycombed with the tombs of that mysterious Etruscan race, the Melchisedek of the nations, coming no one knows whence, 'without father and without mother' a land which has to the west of it the fever-stricken Maremma and the heights of the Amiata range, and to the south the forest country of Viterbo.
He understood a little of what hydraulic science can compass; he knew what canalisation meant, and its assistance to traffic and trade; he had seen the waterworks on the Po, on the Adige, on the Mincio; he had heard how the Velino had been enslaved for the steel foundry of Terni, how the Nerino fed the ironworks of Narni; he had seen the Adda captive at Lodi, and the lakes held in bond at Mantua; he had read of the water drawn from Monte Amiata; and not very many miles off him, in the Abruzzo, was that hapless Fuscino, which had been emptied and dried up by rich meddlers of Rome.
But indirectly, and without betraying her new friends, she made inquiries in Rome. One of the D family wrote to her: 'The English people we brought with us last year to your delicious Torre Amiata were three a gentleman and two ladies. The gentleman was a Mr.
Insignificant and malicious, he governed with the help of a professor of juris prudence and of an astrologer, and frightened his people by an occasional murder. His pastime in the summer months was to roll blocks of stone from the top of Monte Amiata, without caring what or whom they hit.
Certainly Father Benecke gave her no occasion to run. Since his recovery from the first shock and agitation of his suspension he had moved about the roads and tracks of Torre Amiata with the 'recollected' dignity of the pale and meditative recluse.
It is a little place, perched upon the ledge of a long sliding hill, which commands the vale of Orcia; Monte Amiata soaring in aërial majesty beyond. Its old name was Cosignano.
Lucy and Marie tended her as best they could, but her strength appeared to fail her with great rapidity, and there came an evening when Lucy fell into a panic of anxiety. Should she summon the local doctor a man who was paid 80l. a year by the Municipio of Selvapendente, and tended the Commune of Torre Amiata? She had discovered, however, that he was not liked by the peasants.
Ever since their arrival at Torre Amiata Eleanor had abandoned the various elaborate coiffures in which she had been wont to appear at the villa. She would allow nothing but the simplest and rapidest methods; and Marie had been secretly alarmed lest her hand should lose her cunning. So that to-day she coiled, crimped, curled with a will. When she had finished, Eleanor surveyed herself and laughed.
'I understand, Madame, she said, after Eleanor had expressed her thanks with the pretty effusion that was natural to her, 'that you were at Torre Amiata last autumn? Eleanor started. The massaja, she supposed, had been gossiping. It was disagreeable, but good-breeding bade her be frank. 'Yes, I was here with some friends, and your agent gave us hospitality for the night.
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