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When she had finished her tale, Chilina announced that Orso earnestly begged he might be sent writing materials, and that he desired his sister would beseech a lady who might be staying in his house not to depart from it, until she had received a letter from him.
Here's little Chilina with her dowry ready, so that there'll be no necessity for my friend the cure to write one of his persuasive letters to insure her marrying well. We know the man on your farm will give us bread and powder whenever we need them. So fare you well! I hope we shall see you back in Corsica one of these days."
"What the devil does she want with her?" thought Orso to himself. But he was in a hurry to open Miss Lydia's letter, and while he was reading it Chilina went upstairs to his sister's room. "My father, dear sir, has not been well," Miss Nevil wrote, "and he is so indolent, besides, that I am obliged to act as his secretary.
And as Chilina hesitated, he lifted up the linen that was wrapped round the bundle, and saw it contained a loaf of bread and other food. "To whom are you bringing the loaf, my dear?" he asked again. "You know quite well, Ors' Anton': to my uncle." "And isn't your uncle a bandit?" "At your service, Ors' Anton'." "If you met the gendarmes, they would ask you where you were going. . . ."
Colomba, having dismissed Chilina with some secret instructions, spent the greater part of the night in reading old papers. A little before daybreak a few tiny pebbles rattled against the window-pane. At the signal, she went down to the garden, opened a back door, and conducted two very rough men into her house. Her first care was to bring them into the kitchen and give them food.
The following postscript closed the letter: "Dare I ask you what the Signor Prefetto thinks of the excellent education bestowed by my friend on Brusco, the dog? Next to Chilina, he is the most docile and promising pupil I have ever come across." The following day went by without any hostile demonstration. Both sides kept on the defensive.
Saveria was a long time away, and when she at last reappeared, carrying a letter, and followed by little Chilina, rubbing her eyes, and evidently just waked out of her beauty sleep, Orso was wound up to the highest possible pitch of impatience. "Chili," said Orso, "what are you doing here at this hour?" "The signorina sent for me," replied Chilina.
But when she saw Chilina astride on Orso's horse "My brother is dead!" she cried, in a heart-rending voice. The colonel dropped his glass. Miss Lydia screamed. They all rushed to the door of the house. Before Chilina could jump off her steed, she was snatched up like a feather by Colomba, who held her so tight that she almost choked her.
One moment she was pouring out the colonel's coffee, and telling him how well she made it, the next she was setting Miss Lydia and Chilina to work, exhorting them to sew bandages, and roll them up. Then, for the twentieth time, she would ask whether Orso's wound was very painful. She constantly broke off her own work to exclaim to the colonel: "Two such cunning men, such dangerous fellows!
Among the mollusks, a remarkable ribbed Melania, of the section Chilina, occurs. Ostrea distorta, Sowerby. Cinder-bed. Hemicidaris Purbeckensis, E. Forbes. Cyprides from the Middle Purbecks. a. Cypris striato-punctata, E. Forbes. b. Cypris fasciculata, E. Forbes. c. Physa Bristovii, E. Forbes. It was accompanied by a species of Perna.
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