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But that probably would not last if she remained and they got to know her better. Soon the mother came in with Mux. The little boy had heard Dino's last words to Cornelli and had already announced to his mother that Cornelli was sure to stay, because Dino would not let her go. "Oh, I am so glad that you have settled it all between you!
She thrust the key into the tabernacle hurriedly: hurriedly she opened it, and took out the crucifix, without looking at it; then, with trembling fingers, she passed a cord through the little ring, hung the crucifix round her neck, and hid it in the bosom of her mantle. "For Dino's sake," she said to herself. Still there were the letters to be written which Maso was to carry back from Bologna.
Cornelli was quite thrilled and overcome by the thought that anybody should love her so, and it did her more good than anything else. As soon as she came to Dino's room he asked her if she would read to him, too, for he had found out how much she enjoyed reading to Mux out of his picture book. "Have you entertaining books, too?" asked Cornelli with hesitation.
Stretton and his story," said Percival. "I will tell you " "I will not hear. You are impostors, the pair of you." Dino's eyes flashed and his lips compressed themselves. His face, thin from his late illness, assumed a wonderful sternness of expression. "This is folly," he said, with a cold serenity of tone which impressed Percival in spite of himself.
A change, like that produced by a sudden electric shock, passed over Dino's face. His hands fell to his sides. They had been outstretched before, as if in greeting. "You do not want to see him?" he repeated. "I will not see him," said Brian, harshly, almost violently. "Weak as I am, I'll go straight out of the house and village sooner than meet him. Why does he want to see me?
I wonder, by-the-bye, what Dino Vasari is going to do." They had not heard of Dino's death when Percival left England. "If I were you," Percival went on, "I should not stand on ceremony. I should get a special licence in London and marry her at once. You'll have a bother about settlements and provisions and compromises without end, if you don't."
If I saw him I should be sure. I don't suppose that my appearance would agitate him," said Brian, little suspecting the deep interest and importance which would attach to his visit in Dino's mind. "Come, then." And the surgeon led the way to the bed, hidden by a screen from the rest of the ward, where Dino lay. Brian passed with the nurse inside the screen, and looked pityingly at the patient.
"Oh, here is the young gentleman from last summer," Matthew said again, shaking Dino's hand. "But you looked better when you were with us. Oh, yes, the young gentleman looked much better then, I think." "I should think so, Matthew," said Dino. "Of course, I looked better when I could drink such good milk from the stable, in the fine, fresh morning air. It was different in town." Mrs.
He could not bear to cast a doubt upon Dino's good faith, and the Prior divined his reason for the question. "Rest assured, my dear sir, that I learnt it accidentally," he said, with a soothing smile. "I happened to be entering the door when our young friend Dino recognised you. I heard you tell him to call you by the name of Stretton; I also heard you say that Brian Luttrell was dead."
On Saturday morning the mother entered Dino's room just after Cornelli had finished reading such a funny tale that both children still laughed aloud at the remembrance. "Children, to-morrow Cornelli's father is expecting to hear from me. He will want to know if he is to come to fetch her home, or if he is to leave her here another week. Cornelli herself shall decide, but we all want her to stay."
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