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"But I tell thee nothing new," she quickly added. "I only regret thou should'st find me, where, no doubt, you expected to meet the Duca di Sant' Agata himself." "Annina! This from thee!" "Thou surely didst not come to his palace to seek thy cousin!" Gelsomina had long been familiar with grief, but until this moment she had never felt the deep humiliation of shame.
"Thou would'st have it so," she said. "A thousand thanks, dearest, kindest, truest Gelsomina; but doubt not my being able to leave the palace unseen. The danger was in entering. They who go forth do it with the air of having authority." "None pass the halberdiers masked by day, Carlo, but they who have the secret word."
When this pious duty was performed, both the Bravo and Gelsomina busied themselves a little time in contributing to the bodily comforts of the prisoner, and then they departed in company. Jacopo appeared unwilling to quit the vicinity of the cell. A melancholy presentiment seemed to possess his mind, that these stolen visits were soon to cease.
"I could almost fancy, Carlo, that my father was right in using the name he did," she said, as, recovering herself, she turned a reproachful look on his still excited features. "It is the business of parents to name their children; but enough. I must leave thee, good Gelsomina, and I leave thee with a heavy heart." The unsuspecting Gelsomina forgot her alarm.
"Then art thou happier than those of the palaces! I will trust thee, generous girl, for thou canst not be unfaithful to the weakness and wrongs of thy sex." Gelsomina raised a hand, as if to stop the impetuous confidence of her guest, and then she listened intently. "Few enter here," she said; "but there are many ways of learning secrets within these walls which are still unknown to me.
Hearken to me, daughter, and consult thy reason, more than thy weakness." "Question her not, father; let her curse me, and depart." "Carlo!" shrieked Gelsomina. A long pause succeeded.
Where hast thou passed thy days, foolish Gelsomina, not to have felt this truth in the very air thou breathest? 'Tis clear as the sun's light, and palpable aye palpable as these prison walls!"
All that Annina had told her of the character of Don Camillo and his associates came gradually across the mind of the gentle Gelsomina, and she felt the blood creeping to her temples, as she saw the construction her lover might put on her conduct.
The pious Gelsomina crossed herself, and, first acquainting her companions with her intentions, she went within to prepare herself, while Donna Florinda penned a note, in terms so guarded as to defy detection in the event of accident, but which might suffice to let the lord of St. Agata understand their present situation. In a few minutes the keeper's daughter reappeared.
I have long thought that it might one day be my fortune to walk this fatal passage, but I could not dream of such a keeper!" The eye of Gelsomina brightened, and her smile was cheerful. "Thou wilt never cross it to thy harm with me." "Of that I am certain, kind Gessina," he answered, taking her hand. "But this is a riddle that I cannot explain.
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