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Updated: May 22, 2025
Such a scoundrel's soul is too bad for the devil himself." "Get up, vagabond," roughly exclaimed Benedetto. He had looked up Aslitta to avenge Bartolomeo's escape on him, and he was in a very bad humor. As the major did not stir, Benedetto uttered an oath and cried: "Are you deaf, Aslitta?" He then snatched a torch from one of the soldiers who accompanied him and looked around.
Bartolomeo's heart beat fast. He knew that Benedetto was capable of any crime. Not a muscle of his face trembled as Benedetto said threateningly: "So you will not speak!" Bartolomeo cast a look of contempt toward him, and exclaimed: "Go to the devil!" Benedetto clinched his fist and held it in the face of the major. "Did you not understand me? Look here!
At last, on Ginevra's birthday, her mother, in despair at the estrangement which, day by day, assumed a more serious character, meditated an attempt to reconcile the father and daughter, by help of the memories of this family anniversary. They were all three sitting in Bartolomeo's study. Ginevra guessed her mother's intention by the timid hesitation on her face, and she smiled sadly.
The corporal drank also and then they sat down again. This time the game was for money, the stakes being a few pennies. After a while, the soldier in the meantime having won repeatedly, the stakes were increased. The major continued to lose, and soon the soldier had won all of Bartolomeo's cash.
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