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Updated: June 6, 2025
They walked towards the carriage, which was waiting a hundred yards away. On the way Manisty suddenly said, plunging back into some of the perplexities which had assailed him before Eleanor's appearance: 'What on earth does Father Benecke know about it all? Why did he never mention that you were here; and then ask me to pay him a visit? Why did he send me up the hill this morning?
'Non, Madame; c'est plus fort que moi! she had said to Eleanor one day that she had come across Mrs. Burgoyne and Father Benecke together in the Sassetto in after-excuse for her behaviour to him. 'For you and me bien entendu! we think what we please. Heaven knows I am not bigoted. Teresa makes herself unhappy about me. The stout, imperious woman stifled a sigh that betrayed much.
Her coming generally coincided after she was ceremoniously provided for with an outbreak of talk between him and Eleanor, or between him and Benecke, more eager, animated and interesting than before. But Lucy had no part in it.
The only gracious look Lucy had vouchsafed him these two days had been in reward for some new arrangement of Eleanor's sofa which had given the invalid greater ease. He returned to his seat, smiling queerly. 'Well, I am not the only person in disgrace. Do you notice how Benecke is treated? 'She avoids him? 'She never speaks to him if she can help it. I know that he feels it.
Around and above them, on either side of the river, and far up the flanks of the mountains opposite, stretched the great oak woods, which are still to-day the lineal progeny of that vast Ciminian forest where lurked the earliest enemies of Rome. 'But for the sun, it might be Wales! said Manisty, looking round him, as he took out another cigarette. Father Benecke made no reply.
Half a mile away was he sitting with Father Benecke? winning perhaps their poor secret from the priest's incautious lips'? With what eagle-quickness could he pounce on a sign, an indication! And then the flash of those triumphant eyes, and the onslaught of his will on theirs! Hark! She caught her breath. Voices! Two men were descending the road.
So that when it was discovered that they were already acquainted with the mysterious foreign priest, and stoutly disposed to befriend him, the village showed the paralysing effect of a conflict of interests. At the moment and for various reasons the clericals were masters. And the clericals denounced Father Benecke as a traitor and a heretic.
But for Benecke, at this moment, the tender argument of St. Thomas suddenly attained a new beauty and compulsion. He considered it long. He thought of Manisty, his friend, to whom his affectionate heart owed a debt of gratitude, wandering about Italy, in a blind quest of the girl who had been snatched away from him. He thought of the girl herself, and the love that not all Mrs.
'We must live here! cried Lucy in enchantment. 'Let me spread the shawl for you there! just in front of that glimpse of the river. They had turned a corner of the path. Lucy, whose gaze was fixed upon the blue distance towards Orvieto, heard a hurried word from Eleanor, looked round, and saw Father Benecke just rising from a seat in front. A shock ran through her.
They parted, and Father Benecke entered the convent alone. Five days more! Would anything happen or nothing? Manisty's wounded vanity held him at arm's length; Miss Foster could not forgive him. But the priest knew Eleanor's heart; and what else he did not know he divined.
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