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Updated: May 16, 2025
Your husband has a queer hunch-backed man-servant called Cucurullo; he looks like Guidi, I remember, the young poet who ran away from our royal guest the other day. The Cardinal smiled vaguely, and rubbed his chin with his ring. 'He is downstairs, Ortensia said. 'He is a good creature, she added quickly, fearing lest the great man was about to tell her something to Cucurullo's discredit.
In the grey dawn Cucurullo's large unshaven face emerged from the ample folds of his cloak, and his mild blue eyes seemed to review the situation by daylight as he looked from his master's half-muffled figure to Ortensia's closed door, and then towards the window at the end of the passage.
They passed the foot of the main staircase, went on a few steps farther, and then turned into a narrow passage. The glare of a lantern flashed in Cucurullo's eyes. 'Here is the gentleman, the sergeant said in a low voice. 'This is our head gaoler, he added, turning to Cucurullo. 'I have agreed that you should pay three silver florins in advance for the visit.
A moment more and he knocked at his own door, of which the heavy key had been in Cucurullo's keeping when they had all left the house together to go to the Lateran. Pina opened the door in her usual quiet way, and was a little surprised to see Stradella alone. 'How is she? he asked, as soon as he saw her face by the light of the hanging lamp in the hall.
Tommaso was by this time puffing like a porpoise, for he was not as young as when he had been the terror of the Bologna road, and he had been living on the fat of his masters' plentiful leavings for weeks, with a very liberal allowance of the white wine of Marino. Moreover, knowing what he did of the Bravi's intentions, Cucurullo's suggestion seemed at once highly comic and extremely valuable.
Thereupon he turned again and stalked away, much to Cucurullo's consternation; and in this manner the fourth and last of the runaway party that had arrived at the inn from Rovigo disappeared in Ferrara, somewhat to the surprise of the innkeeper, but not to his loss, since Cucurullo had paid for his lodging in advance.
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