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The grocer who kept the post-office at Pietranera, and the old maimed soldier who had been the village policeman both of them attached to the della Rebbia family were turned adrift, and their places filled by Barricini's creatures. The colonel's wife died, and her last wish was that she might be buried in the middle of the little wood in which she had been fond of walking.
Orso lost no time in assenting to this plan, and after a few moments' silence, Colomba continued: "Perhaps, Orso, you think I was joking when I talked of an assault on the Barricini's house. Do you know we are in force two to one at the very least? Now that the prefect has suspended the mayor, every man in the place is on our side. We might cut them to pieces.
I will not talk to you about his character, for you are not acquainted with it, and are prejudiced against it; but you can not suppose that a man conversant with the law " "But, monsieur," said Orso, rising to his feet, "be good enough to recollect that when you tell me the letter was not Barricini's work, you ascribe it to my father. And my father's honour, monsieur, is mine!"
"It is a good thing," they said, "that Barricini's sons are not back yet, for they are not so patient as the lawyer, and very likely they would not have let their enemy set his foot on their ground without making him pay for his bravado." "Remember what I am telling you, neighbour," said an old man, the village oracle. "I watched Colomba's face to-day. She had some idea in her head.
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