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Updated: June 3, 2025
The place looked like the archive-room of some public establishment, which kept its archives in very unusually good order. All these were the documents and pleadings in all the lawsuits and other legal transactions of all the clients of the three generations of the Fortini.
"Good-evening, Signor Marchese. I hope it may be better with you than I fear. And, of course, if you need me, as you will, you will summon me, and I will not fail to be with you within a few minutes of your call." "Thanks, Signor Fortini. Addio." "One word more, Signor Marchese, before you go.
If, according to the strict letter of the requirements of their duty, the magistrates or the police authorities present ought, under the circumstances, to have prevented the free departure of the accused man to his own home, it did not occur to any one to do so. Professor Tomosarchi and Fortini between them, got him, still insensible, to his carriage, and took him to his home.
"On the 24th of March, four-and-forty years ago, the Signora Fortini departed this life, Signor Professore. But for that gracious disposition of Providence, who knows that his lot, or worse, might not have been mine? From Eve downwards, Signor Professore, from Eve downwards, it is the same story always the same story, in one shape or another in one shape or another."
I have thought it my duty family considerations in fact, I've been thinking on the subject for a long time in short, Signor Fortini, I am about to be married." "Whew w w!" whistled the lawyer, without the least attempt at concealing the extremity of his astonishment; and pushing back his chair a couple of feet, as he raised his head to stare into his companion's face.
Would to God that fatal woman had never come near Ravenna!" "Many thanks for your visit, Signor Fortini, and for all the kindness you have shown me since this sad misfortune befell. Tell my uncle how much I have felt and feel for him. Addio, Signor Fortini. If anything new should turn up you will not fail to let me know it?
Of course, as Fortini urged, it was well known, through the city how dreadfully he must have been affected by the sad circumstances that had happened people would be prepared to see him looking ill and changed. Curious?
Why surely Signor Marchese!" said the old lawyer, looking into his companion's face, while a strange expression of understanding, mixed with a blank look of dismay and alarm, stole over his own features. "What is it? What have they got? Why, heavens and earth! it is Signor Fortini, is it not a dead body they are carrying? My God!"
"It may be," he added, "it may be that something may turn up to prevent any public accusation of the Marchese. It may be that he is not guilty. It may be that the deed may yet be brought home to some other hand." "Do you think that, Fortini? do you think that likely?" said the Marchese, with a quickly withdrawn anxious look into the lawyer's face. "No, frankly, I do not think it likely.
The Trial The police authorities were longer in preparing their case than Signor Fortini had anticipated they would be; but at length it was known throughout the city that the day for the trial had been fixed. It was to take place on a Monday morning towards the latter part of Lent.
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