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The sense of oppression which Gemma had felt in the Gadfly's society was intensified by the gypsy's presence; and when, a moment later, the host came up to beg Signora Bolla to help him entertain some tourists in the other room, she consented with an odd feeling of relief. "Well, Madonna, and what do you think of the Gadfly?" Martini asked as they drove back to Florence late at night.
"Excuse me; I was speaking of the other hand. That is a fresh hurt." The slender, flexible right hand was badly cut and grazed. The Gadfly held it up. The wrist was swollen, and across it ran a deep and long black bruise. "It is a m-m-mere trifle, as you see," he said. "When I was arrested the other day, thanks to Your Eminence," he made another little bow, "one of the soldiers stamped on it."
Up till now I have unconditionally opposed the scheme; and he has been trying very hard to conquer my objection by assuring me that there is great danger of an armed attempt on Thursday when the crowd collects for the procession an attempt which probably would end in bloodshed. Do you follow me?" The Gadfly was staring absently out of the window.
This kind never leaves the woods but its skin is as much perforated by the gadfly as that of the others, a presumptive proof that the smaller species are not driven to the sea-coast solely by the attacks of that insect. There are a few reindeer occasionally killed in the spring whose skins are entire and these are always fat whereas the others are lean at that season.
The principal reason why the deer spend so much time in the water seems to be to get rid of a number of troublesome flies that very much annoy them. Some species of gadfly have the power not only to sting them, but to insert their eggs under the skin, which soon develops into a large grub.
In this degree of longitude, not far from a tropical sign upon the name of which good taste forbids us to make a jest at once coarse and unworthy of this thoughtful work, a horrible little annoyance appears, ingeniously called the Matrimonial Gadfly, the most provoking of all gnats, mosquitoes, blood-suckers, fleas and scorpions, for no net was ever yet invented that could keep it off.
I am sorry to have troubled you." The Gadfly leaned back in his chair with a perplexed frown. What did she want the dates for? When they passed through Ecuador Gemma went home with the slip of paper in her hand. April, 1838 and Arthur had died in May, 1833. Five years She began pacing up and down her room. She had slept badly the last few nights, and there were dark shadows under her eyes.
Perhaps he would succeed in escaping; perhaps they would kill him; in any case he should never see the Padre again, and it was all vanity and vexation of spirit. One of the warders brought in supper, and the Gadfly looked up with heavy-eyed indifference. "What time is it?" "Six o'clock. Your supper, sir."
This was the very thing De Wichehalse was afraid to hear of. He had lived so mild a life among the folk who loved him that any fear of worry in great places was too much for him. And yet sometimes he could not help a little prick of thought about his duty to his daughter. Hence it came that common sense was driven wild by conscience, as forever happens with the few who keep that gadfly.
To be sure he had not reckoned on any gratitude for the gift of the breeches. But what had he done that they should be flaunted on a scarecrow?... Oh, it was monstrous! As little could he understand Tregarthen or Tregarthen's language. Some gadfly must have stung the man.
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