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She stayed away a good two hours to get her daughter." "My mother is dangerously ill, perhaps dying," said the young girl in a sharp voice. "It won't be so serious," replied the woman, with a coarse laugh. "Have you not heard that the woman is dangerously ill?" said the ex-priest. "Is she sick?" asked the woman, coldly. "Well, if she dies, it won't be a great misfortune.
Valentine's voice broke, Maximilian laid his arm protectingly around the young girl and led her away, while Benedetto and Anselmo were brought back to their comrades. "Who is the lady?" asked Anselmo. "She is very handsome." Benedetto remained silent and the ex-priest looked distrustfully at him. Toward evening the blacksmith came, and Benedetto was freed from Anselmo.
The woman opened a door and winked to the ex-priest to enter. The room was small and dirty. In the corner stood a slovenly bed upon which Anselmo deposited the invalid. "Is there a physician in the neighborhood?" he asked. "A physician? That is hardly worth the trouble," mocked the virago, "she is only drunk."
"May God reward you; the sooner you get her out of my house the happier I shall be." The woman hurried into the house, and Anselmo handed the invalid's daughter the medicine he had bought and waited for the return of the virago. In less than five minutes she returned and handed the ex-priest a package of papers. "Where can I look through them?" he asked, uneasily. "Oh, come into the kitchen."
As soon as the jailer turned away, Benedetto, mad with rage, turned to the ex-priest and said: "Why won't you free me from your society?" "Because I do not wish to have any strange face about me," was the indifferent reply. "You do not embarrass me in the least, and as I do not embarrass you " "On the contrary, you are distasteful to me," interrupted Benedetto, violently. "Really?
This was a facer for the ex-priest, and ere he could frame a retort Jerome took up the matter again. "Thou hast said that thou art willing to keep thine oath." "Not willing, but I will not willingly break it. My heart is no longer in the enterprise. I shall be ashamed to look my neighbours in the face. I shall fear their glances and despise myself.
Of course Mary was summoned to give her best dinner, and wear her best frock; and her father made ready to receive the new State dignitary. Schneider's carriage speedily rolled into the court-yard, and Schneider's CART followed, as a matter of course. The ex-priest only entered the house; his companion remaining with the horses to dine in private.
The louder it became, the more their hearts beat with joy. "Are you ready?" whispered Anselmo to his comrade. "Yes." "Then forward! It is a question of life or death." They both lay flat on the ground and Anselmo drew from a hole a package wrapped in sail cloth. "Here, take this package," the ex-priest told his companion, "and give it to me as soon as I am in the water.
Reiterated refusals showed the ex-priest in what profound contempt the nephew of the curate held him; and now that icy scorn was revenged by the terrible threat as to his little granddaughter, about which the Abbe Brossette spoke to the countess.
One of them was Fausto de Almeida. When the ex-priest, Ottoni, visited Vargem Guande some years ago to preach the gospel this man Almeida, with a great crowd of boys equipped with tin cans, met him at the station. This troupe escorted Ottoni to the church and stood outside making as much noise as possible. He offered the ex-priest a loaded cigar, which Ottoni declined with kindly thanks.
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