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I had reached the bottom of the stairs when the shrill feminine accents of Mme. the proprietress struck unpleasantly on my ear. "No! no! I tell you!" she was saying. "This man is not my lodger. He never came here with a dog. There," she added volubly, and pointing an unwashed finger at Carissimo who was struggling and growling in my arms, "there is the dog.
At once I gave chase. I ran after him and then, Sir, he came for a second within the circle of light projected by a street lanthorn. But in that one second I had seen that which turned my frozen blood into liquid lava a tail, Sir! a dog's tail, fluffy and curly, projecting from beneath that recreant's left arm. A dog, Sir! a dog! Carissimo! the darling of Mme. la Comtesse de Nolé's heart!
Buonamico di Cristofano detto Buffalmacco pittore Fiorentino, il qual fu discepolo d' Andrea Tafi, e come uomo burlevole celebrato da Messer Giovanni Boccaccio nel suo Decamerone, fu come si sa carissimo compagno di Bruno e di Calendrino pittori ancor essi faceti e piacevole, e, come si può vedere nell' opere sue sparse per tutta Toscana, di assai buon giudizio nell' arte sua del dipignere.
I hardly knew what I was doing. I wandered all day up and down the Quai Voltaire, and the Quai des Grands Augustins, and in and around the tortuous streets till I was dog-tired, distracted, half crazy. I went to the Morgue, thinking to find there Theodore's dead body, and found myself vaguely looking for the mutilated corpse of Carissimo.
"So sorry that only duty to our land of Cyprus stayeth me from seeking that thy weary penance be lightened. If I might, I would help thee." "Our land of Cyprus! and thou a Venetian!" she cried triumphantly, her rainbow face flashing smiles, "and how, caro Signore carissimo Signore if 'duty to our land of Cyprus' should bid thee help me?"
When he met me at the corner of the Rue Beaune he was on his way to the Rue Guénégaud, hoping to exchange Carissimo for five thousand francs. When he met me, however, he felt that the best thing to do for the moment was to seek safety in flight. He had only just time to run back to the hotel to warn Mme. Sand of my approach and beg her to detain me at any cost.
"But surely, Madame," I urged, "M. le Comte . . ." "No, Monsieur," she replied. "M. le Comte has flatly refused this time to pay these abominable thieves for the recovery of Carissimo. He upbraids himself for having yielded to their demands on the three previous occasions. He calls these demands blackmailing, and vows that to give them money again is to encourage them in their nefarious practices.
"We are very sorry to lose you, especially to-day, San Miniato carissimo," said the Marchesa. "But if it cannot be helped well, good-bye." So San Miniato went out and left the mother and daughter together again as he had found them. It is needless to say that the Piedmontese friend was a fiction, and that San Miniato had no engagement of that kind.
She was not imaginative, and her own ills and the present absorbed her, since now she heard the man's step upon the stair. "You have come then," she cried. He made no answer, but he put his arms about her, holding her close, and kissed her again and again. "Filippo! Let me go! Let me breathe, carissimo! I want to speak to you." He did not seem to hear her.
"I love you, carissimo," she said, and rose at the same moment from her seat. "Come it is time. Mamma will be tired," she added, while he held her hand and pressed it to his lips. Her confusion had made it easy for him. He would have had difficulty in ending the scene artistically if she had not unconsciously helped him. Ruggiero clenched his hands a little tighter and tried not to breathe.
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