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Updated: June 24, 2025
But Vampa raised his head proudly; as to Teresa, her eyes sparkled when she thought of all the fine gowns and gay jewellery she could buy with this purse of gold. Several days elapsed, and they neither saw nor heard of Cucumetto. The time of the Carnival was at hand. The Count of San-Felice announced a grand masked ball, to which all that were distinguished in Rome were invited.
"'I thought that my entreaties' "'What right have you, any more than the rest, to ask for an exception? 'It is true. 'But never mind, continued Cucumetto, laughing, 'sooner or later your turn will come. Carlini's teeth clinched convulsively. "'Now, then, said Cucumetto, advancing towards the other bandits, 'are you coming? 'I follow you.
An hour before daybreak, Cucumetto aroused his men, and gave the word to march. But Carlini would not quit the forest, without knowing what had become of Rita's father. He went toward the place where he had left him. He found the old man suspended from one of the branches of the oak which shaded his daughter's grave.
The bandits shouted with laughter. 'And what have you done to aspire to this honor? demanded the lieutenant. 'I have killed your chief, Cucumetto, whose dress I now wear; and I set fire to the villa San-Felice to procure a wedding-dress for my betrothed. An hour afterwards Luigi Vampa was chosen captain, vice Cucumetto deceased."
There he told the chief all his affection for the prisoner, their promises of mutual fidelity, and how every night, since he had been near, they had met in some neighboring ruins. "It so happened that night that Cucumetto had sent Carlini to a village, so that he had been unable to go to the place of meeting.
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