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The two Bravi listened in silent surprise, glancing at each other from time to time, as if to note some point of importance. 'Something must be done at once! cried Trombin, when the landlord had told all. 'This is an egregious miscarriage of the law! Something must be done at once! 'Something must be done at once! echoed Gambardella very emphatically, though in a much lower tone.
If there had been time, he would have stopped and looked back again, for as he turned he had the impression, without the certainty, that Trombin and Gambardella were standing at the edge of the crowd on the other side of the nave from Ortensia.
Trombin tried the door and found it ajar; both men entered, and Gambardella pushed it back to its original position.
'That goes without saying, madam, answered Gambardella. 'You may regard her as already dead and buried, for you have our word for it. Nothing remains but that you should place in our hands a hundred gold ducats on account, which we shall require in order to start. The lady was evidently prepared for such a demand, and produced a small leathern bag from within her monk's frock.
Trombin nodded his approval, for he was still at work on his orange, and was well aware that if the contact were broken for purposes of speech before the fruit was dry, the perfection of the satisfaction would be seriously compromised. 'Tommaso, Gambardella continued, 'I think you know Rome well.
Pina knelt down a little way behind her mistress, and Cucurullo took his place at the same distance behind his master; but Trombin went and stood on Ortensia's left and Gambardella on Stradella's right, as witnesses for the bride and bridegroom respectively.
'I have not been able to see the lady herself, Gambardella continued, 'but the Mother Superior of the Ursulines was so good as to receive me, and after some demur she agreed to let the Lady Ortensia and her woman leave the convent early to-morrow morning. 'Not till to-morrow? Stradella could not hide his disappointment.
Gambardella had purposely told his story so that Cucurullo could hear it, and had glanced at him from time to time to be sure that he understood. 'Are you afraid to go alone? asked the Bravo, not at all contemptuously. 'No, sir. I am not afraid. Where shall I find my master when I have got the things? 'Do you know where Santa Prassede is, in that narrow street near Santa Maria Maggiore?
The Bravi had started when they first caught sight of the Venetian girl, for neither of them had expected such rare beauty; and with the added illusion of the gold-shot veil and the all-generous sunshine, it was nothing less than transcendent. Trombin and Gambardella looked at each other quietly, as they always did when the same thought struck them.
'Cucurullo should not have gone to them without asking his master's consent, said Ortensia, not altogether pleased. 'Do you know what Don Alberto told me? He said that Count Trombin and Count Gambardella are Bravi, the most famous in Italy! 'It is not possible, replied Pina, shaking her head. 'I do not believe it!
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