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The upshot was that the Barricini suffered no inconvenience, the examining magistrate was loud in his praise of the mayor, and the mayor, on his side, crowned his handsome behaviour by relinquishing all his claims over the stream, concerning which he had brought the lawsuit against Colonel della Rebbia.
Meanwhile, very shortly after Orso's departure, Colomba's spies had warned her that the Barricini were out on the warpath, and from that moment she was racked by the most intense anxiety.
Nevertheless, and contrary to custom, this murder had not resulted in others; for the della Rebbia and the Barricini had been equally persecuted by the Genoese Government, and as the young men had all left the country, the two families were deprived, during several generations, of their more energetic representatives.
"Well," said Signor Barricini, as he pulled down his spectacles and returned the documents, "knowing the late colonel's kind heart, Tomaso thought most likely he thought that the colonel would change his mind about the notice. As a matter of fact, Bianchi is still at the mill, so " "It was I," said Colomba, and there was scorn in her voice, "who left him there.
The della Rebbia house and tower stand on the northern side of the square at Pietranera. The Barricini house and tower are on the southern side. Since the colonel's wife had been buried, no member of either family had ever been seen on any side of the square, save that assigned by tacit agreement to its own party.
He drew his sword, but being only one against three, he would have fared very ill if a stranger, who was playing in the same room, had not exclaimed, "I, too, am a Corsican," and come to his rescue. This stranger was one of the Barricini, who, for that matter, was not acquainted with his countryman. After mutual explanations, they interchanged courtesies and vowed eternal friendship.
Then stretching out his arm, "Hi, Brusco," he cried to his dog, "jump for the Signor Prefetto!" The dog jumped; the bandits swiftly snatched up their arms in the kitchen, fled across the garden, and at a shrill whistle the door of the room flew open as though by magic. "Signor Barricini," said Orso, and suppressed fury vibrated in his voice, "I hold you to be a forger!
This monument of public utility was constructed at the common expense of the della Rebbia and Barricini families. But the man who imagined this to be a sign of former friendship between the two families would be sorely mistaken. On the contrary, it is the outcome of their mutual jealousy.
Well! there's one man who'll have a queer dessert to-day, and that's Lawyer Barricini! you want butcher's meat, do you? Well, here you have it. Now, who the devil will be the heir?" "What! is Vincentello dead too?" "Dead as mutton. Salute a noi! The good point about you is that you don't let them suffer.
She has sworn the Barricini shall die, and you see, Miss Nevil, what confidence I have in you! they would not be alive now, perhaps, if one of the prejudices for which her uncivilized education must be the excuse had not convinced her that the execution of this vengeance belongs to me, as head of her family, and that my honour depends upon it!"
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