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His mother humoured him, and the old Duca, yearning for his little fair-haired daughter, went alone at last to Avellino. Then came long conversations at night between the Duchessa and Veronica. The Duchessa loved her son very dearly, but since he was so much better, she was tired of Muro. She wished to see her other children.
Look you, Vincenzo, you have been faithful and obedient so far, I expect implicit fidelity and obedience still. You will not be needed here to-morrow after the marriage ball has once begun; you can take the nine o'clock train to Avellino, and understand me you will remain there till you receive further news from me.
The view was indeed superb from the leafy bosom of the valley, the green hills like smooth, undulating billows rolled upward, till their emerald verdure was lost in the dense purple shadows and tall peaks of the Apennines; the town of Avellino lay at my feet, small yet clearly defined as a miniature painting on porcelain; and a little further beyond and above me rose the gray tower of the Monte Vergine itself, the one sad and solitary-looking object in all the luxuriant riante landscape.
"That is to go to Avellino, eccellenza?" he asked, with more alacrity than he had yet shown. "Yes," I answered. "You will place it in the hands of the good Signora Monti, for whom I have a great respect. She will take care of it till I return." "Your commands shall be obeyed, signor," he said, rapidly, as though eager to atone for his past hesitation.
But he had been obliged to leave her soon afterwards, and she suspected that he had followed Ghisleri to the north in order to pick a quarrel with him. She was very unhappy, and there was much more about herself in her letter than about Veronica's marriage. The old couple grew daily more anxious to leave for Avellino.
It was not easy to argue against an invalid's prerogative. After some fruitless attempts to move him, his father and mother temporarily desisted. "You shall not go to Avellino," he said to Veronica, when they were alone. "It is a den of wild children and intolerable relations, and you would not have a moment's peace.
"Yes, truly!" she said, showing her white teeth in a pleased smile as I made the admiring remark she expected. "Avellino has long had a name for its apples but, thanks to the Holy Mother, I think in the season there is no fruit in all the neighborhood finer than mine. The produce of it brings me almost enough to live upon that and the house, when I can find signori willing to dwell with me.
Few lovelier sights are to be seen in nature than a sunset from one of the smaller hills round Avellino when the peaks of the Apennines seem to catch fire from the flaming clouds, and below them, the valleys are full of those tender purple and gray shadows that one sees on the canvases of Salvator Rosa, while the town itself looks like a bronzed carving on an old shield, outlined clearly against the dazzling luster of the sky.
I thank you from my heart," and I spoke more gravely, "for your well meant care and kindness, but I assure you there is nothing wrong with me. I am well perfectly well and happy. It is understood that you go to Avellino to-morrow evening?" Vincenzo sighed, but was passive. "It must be as the eccellenza pleases," he murmured, resignedly.
"As you have seen me once without them, you can see me again," I observed, gently. "I wear them for a special purpose. Here in Avellino the purpose does not hold. Thus far I confide in you. But beware how you betray my confidence." "Eccellenza!" cried Vincenzo, in truly pained accents, and with a grieved look. I rose and laid my hand on his arm. "There! I was wrong forgive me.
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