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Updated: June 8, 2025
'You will say that a gentleman of fortune desires the use of the little house for a week, with the keys, from the twenty-first to the twenty-eighth of June. 'At one Apostolic florin a day, put in Gambardella. 'But you must on no account let him know our names, said Trombin. 'You can give him two florins in hand as earnest money 'One is quite enough, interrupted Gambardella.
'And as you will have to receive the thousand gold ducats from Don Alberto, said Gambardella, speaking to Tommaso, 'you will have a very substantial guarantee in hand. For though we shall never be far from you on that evening, we shall not be able to hinder you from running away and robbing us if you choose to do so.
Meanwhile Trombin had parried the blow his nearest adversary had struck at him, and in return had instantly disabled him by running him through the right forearm, precisely as he had done by Don Alberto. A moment later Gambardella opened his dark lantern, and held it in his left, so that he and Trombin became almost invisible to their adversaries and had them at a great disadvantage.
That is the whole story, sir. I was over the frontier before morning. Gambardella smiled while Tommaso went on shaving him, and Trombin laughed as if the jest were very good. 'It was not strictly in your branch of the profession, Tommaso, he said, 'but under the circumstances you acted with great tact.
'I could not ask such a favour of any one who knows me better, could I? If any one can vouch for me, you can. Gambardella condescended to smile faintly, and suggested an outline of the letter.
'My name is Pignaver, he said slowly, and dwelling proudly on each syllable, 'and I am a Senator. You will understand at once why I wear a mask here. I am well known by sight to many, and I have many friends 'One too many, I presume, suggested Gambardella, interrupting softly.
For my present inspiration is of such a tremendous nature that an ordinary intelligence might be unsettled by it. 'Could you not communicate the nature of it in small doses, as it were? asked Gambardella, mimicking him a little. 'One can get accustomed even to poisons in that way, as Mithridates did.
Trombin and Gambardella also lodged in the Orso, but in rooms far from the happy pair, whom they chose to leave in peace for the present, never asking to see them nor inviting them to their well-spread table.
Neither the money nor the papal safe-conduct would be forthcoming until the young noble had actually seen Ortensia in the little house. After the last words he had spoken, Tommaso quietly prepared to shave Gambardella, while Trombin was finishing the second orange.
Instead of drawing back the small sliding panel in the weather-beaten door to see who was outside and to ask his errand, the portress opened the postern on one side almost immediately, without showing herself, and Gambardella slipped in unchallenged and shut it after him.
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