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Updated: May 11, 2025
You had better send Katie to bed, Gemma; and be as quiet as you can, both of you. Good-bye till twelve, then." He went away with a little nod and smile, banging the door after him to let the neighbours hear that Signora Bolla's visitor was gone. Gemma went out into the kitchen to say good-night to Katie, and came back with black coffee on a tray. "Would you like to lie down a bit?" she said.
"What business?" he asked in the same dull voice. "I mean, about Bolla's letter." Arthur's face contracted painfully at the name. "I thought you wouldn't have heard of it," Gemma went on; "but I suppose they've told you. Bolla must be perfectly mad to have imagined such a thing." "Such a thing ?" "You don't know about it, then?
Evidently Bolla, too, must have been arrested. The first depositions were of the usual stereotyped character; then followed a short account of Bolla's connection with the society, of the dissemination of prohibited literature in Leghorn, and of the students' meetings. Next came "Among those who joined us was a young Englishman, Arthur Burton, who belongs to one of the rich shipowning families."
Bolla's name rang in his ears night and day, interfering even with his devotions, and forcing its way in among the beads of the rosary instead of the name of Mary. But the worst thing of all was that his religion, like the outer world, seemed to be slipping away from him as the days went by.
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