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Her alarm was realised when she learnt of a plot between Rassi and her father to poison the prisoner. On the second day of his confinement Fabrice was about to eat his dinner when Clelia, in desperate agitation, forced her way into his cell. "Have you tasted it?" she cried, grasping his arm. Fabrice guessed the state of affairs with delight. He seized her in his arms and kissed her.
A great anguish seized and wrung the heart of Clelia Alba. She knew that Adone was not in the house, Did he, the soul of purity and honour, seduce a girl who dwelt under his own roof? carry on an intrigue with a little beggar, to his own shame and the outrage of his mother? Was this the true cause of his frequent absence, his many nights abroad? Her dark brows contracted, her black eyes blazed.
For the first time in all his twenty-four years of life he went out of the house without a word to his mother, and took his way to the river again; for the first time he was neglectful of his cattle and forgetful of the land. Nerina came in from the fowl-house with alarm on her face. "Madama Clelia!" she said timidly, "Adone has gone away without feeding and watering the oxen. May I do it?"
The child looked tired and had lost her bright colour; but she had a resolute look on her face. "My poor little girl," he said gently to her, "Madonna Clelia is angered against you. We will hope her anger will pass ere long. Meanwhile you must not go to the house. You would not make ill-blood between a mother and her son?" "No," said Nernia.
I do not want to speak without respect to you, Adone, for I have eaten your bread and been sheltered by your roof through many a year; but for whatever end you send that child out of nights, you do a bad thing, a cruel thing, a thing unworthy of your stock; and if I know Clelia Alba and who should know her if not I? she will never let Nerina enter her house again." Adone's face grew dark.
The pity of it!" thought Don Silverio, as the blue sky shone through the grated window and against the blue sky a rose branch swung and a swallow circled. "Your servant, Reverendissimo," said the voice of Clelia Alba, and Don Silverio rose from his seat. "My friend," he said to her, "I find you in trouble, and I fear that I shall add to it. But tell me first, what is this tale of Nerina?"
His attachment did not abate with absence, so that when Clélia really married, the whole family thought it necessary to keep it a secret from her little lover, and he remained in ignorance of it for years, although he betrayed extraordinary suspicion and misgiving on the subject.
These things always end so. My poor dear friend! do you not understand, even yet, that nothing can save your homestead?" Clelia Alba leaned her elbows on her knees and bowed her face upon her hands.
Cassander, and Clelia, till she is half bewildered, and holds forth upon the virtues of these famous heroines, till I am frequently upon the point of exclaiming, 'Ah, my dear, it is all very fine; but Clelia and Mandane would not have shared their bed with the duc de Choiseul."
He went about the house, raving of her to everybody, with sundry Gallic interjections; until Mrs. Chump said: "'Deed, sir, ye don't seem to have much idea of a woman's feelin's." Tracy produced in a night two sketches of libretti for Emilia to choose from the Roman Clelia being one, and Camillus the other. Tracy praised either impartially, and was indifferent between them, he told her.
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