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He called one of the camerieri and ordered these, and I read quietly until they came. 'Now, I said, 'write to my dictation. He took the pen and wrote 'I have this day informed Signor Calvotti that Mr. Charles Grammont owes me the sum of One Hundred Francs, and in consideration of this receipt Signor Calvotti has discharged Mr. Grammont's debt.
'Signor Calvotti, said the advocate, the black fire burning slowly in his eyes, and a slow flush creeping to his pale forehead whilst he spoke, 'what mystery surrounds your share of this matter I can only faintly guess. But I know that it is not a mystery to you.
I responded to his words and to the fixity of his gaze by silence. 'Give me your confidence, and I will serve your turn, he said again. 'Are you the guilty man? 'I? No. 'Signor Calvotti, he began again, after another pause, during which his eyes were shadowed by his drooping brows, 'you shall trust me yet. Any secret suspicion given to me is buried in the grave.
'Yes, your candid opinion. 'You will not be offended at anything I shall say? 'No. I want an honest judgment, and I can trust yours. I used the common slang of criticism. 'Suppose, then, I were to say that the: composition is bad, the colour crude, the whole work amateurish, the modelling thin and in places, false, the 'Don't say any more, Calvotti.
He received the news very joyfully, but after a while he sobered down greatly, and when we took our leave together he was very depressed, and had grown unlike himself, I asked no questions, but he turned into my room and sat down and lit a cigar and held silence for a few minutes. Then he said 'I say, Calvotti, old man, have you noticed that I have never once asked you to my rooms?
I did not at all know who he was, but I knew that he had been to Miss Grammont's rooms, because I was already near my own door, and nobody but Miss Grammont lived above me. The stranger said Good-night as he passed me, and I returned his salutation. He stopped short. 'Have I the honour to address Mr. Calvotti? he asked. 'That is my name, I answered, in some astonishment.
'It is a terrible business, Calvotti, but it is better so. You have done right. You have done well. You have done nobly. There is no evidence against you which is not so flimsy that a fly could break through it. Clyde will disappear. If he should come back again, I will warn him off trust me. Time will console Cecilia, and you will have averted a tragedy. Here is somebody at the door.
'Signor Calvotti, he said, reseating himself, 'I shall ask you to do me a favour. You know Grammont and you know his friends. He will listen to you where he will not look at me. Will you do me the favour to speak for me to ask him to pay me? I thought I saw a way to be rid of him. 'How much does he owe you? I asked him. 'Cento franchi, he answered. 'Very good. Bring me pen, ink, and paper.
'Go your way, I said, 'and trouble me no more' he bowed his head and spread out his hands in assent 'but remember! 'Signor Calvotti, he said, 'I thank you, and I will trouble you no more. Young Clyde had written to me saying that he was tired and overworked, and that he needed a month's holiday, and meant to take it. He had never been in Italy, and naturally proposed to join me in Naples.
Some of the things he hangs about his own place, you know, and some of them more than half, I suppose he has cut into strips and sent back to me. He's a very singular man, and has extraordinary ideas about pictures. But I've been working on one subject now for some months past, and now I've finished it, and Look here, Calvotti, I'll tell you everything.
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