Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 18, 2025
A man's convictions are not easily uprooted; love is not always blind, and still I feel that, even if I have lost my reputation, I may win something better after the tale is told." Ganns patted his arm kindly. "Hope no such thing, I beg you," he said. "Fight your hope, for it will soon prove to be based on a chimera on something that doesn't and never did exist.
It contains many books, but there shall be my great couch moved from my own bedroom and set up there in half an hour. It is as comfortable as a bed." He turned to his niece. "Seek Assunta and Ernesto and set the apartment in order for Mr. Ganns, Jenny; and you, Giuseppe, will take Mr. Brendon to the Hotel Victoria and bring back Peter's luggage."
"It's always interesting to get a thing from every angle," answered Mr. Ganns. "Your brother may have something to tell us." But whether Bendigo's diary might have proved valuable remained a matter of doubt, for when Jenny opened the parcel, it was not there. A blank book and the famous novel were all the parcel contained. "But I packed it myself," said Mr. Redmayne.
It is entirely contrary to my nature to take an active part in this campaign. To put any enterprise or adventure upon me would be to ask for failure." "Fear nothing at all," answered Ganns. "I don't want you to do anything whatever but lie low and amuse yourself. The danger may follow you, or it may not; but my only wish is to come between you and danger, Albert, and keep you under my own eyes.
He offered no defence and he was only impatient to return to his seclusion within the red walls of the county jail, where he occupied the brief balance of his days with just such a statement as Peter Ganns had foretold that he would seek to make. This extraordinary document was very characteristic of the criminal.
His attitude to Doria was affirmed, and from that hour he believed, with Peter Ganns, that the Italian knew the purposes of the unknown and was assisting him to achieve them. But again his spirit picked and chose. He did not remember how Ganns also, though in more temperate words than Doria's, had warned him for the present to put no trust even in Jenny.
Two days later the book lover and Peter were taking a steamer for Varenna, whence they would entrain for Milan and so return to England. The meeting of Signor Poggi and Mr. Ganns afforded exquisite satisfaction to Albert, and Peter did not cloud his pleasure with any allusion to the future until the following morning.
Then he nodded and shut it. Suddenly Mr. Ganns laughed. The other's book reminded him of an incident. "A funny little thing happened yesterday afternoon that I forgot," he said. "I'd turned in, leaving my notebook by my head, when there came a visitor to my room.
"There is coming into my mind a cloud a premonition that very dreadful disasters are going to happen to those I love. When does Ganns return?" "Soon after dark, Mr. Redmayne. Perhaps about nine o'clock we may expect him. Be patient a little longer." "It has not happened to me to feel as I do to-day," answered the book lover.
"We are great men, all three of us," said Signor Poggi, "and greatness cleaves to greatness. Return as quickly as you can, Albert, and obey Signor Ganns in everything. May this cloud be quickly lifted from your life. Meantime you both have my prayers." Albert translated the speech for Peter's benefit; then the train moved forward and Virgilio took the next boat home again.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking