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Updated: May 9, 2025
"Are you the thing that has grown out of that little child I vowed to chastity and to God? Then has my sin overtaken me the sin of bearing a son to Giovanni d'Anguissola, that enemy of God!" "Ah, mother, mother!" I cried again, thinking perhaps by that all-powerful word to move her yet to pity and to gentleness. "Madonna," cried Gervasio, "be merciful if you would look for mercy."
Gervasio and Santiago resembled their sister in coloring and profile, but lacked her subtle quality of personality and divine innocence. Luis was more the mother's son than the father's saving his olive skin; a grandee, modified by the simplicities of a soldier's life, amiable and upright.
She dispatched some to help Giojoso, others she sent in urgent quest of Fra Gervasio, me she hurried along to her private dining-room. I went very obediently, and even a little fearfully now that my passion had fallen from me.
This utilitarian flavour of the south has become very intelligible to me during the last few days. I, too, am thinking less of calceolarias than of cauliflowers. The village of San Gervasio is the next station to Venosa, lying on an eminence only thirteen kilometres from there.
From the very edge of death was your father brought back to life and strength. He would have used that life and that strength to cheat God of the price of His boon to me." "And if," Fra Gervasio questioned almost fiercely, "Agostino in the end should have no vocation, should have no call to such a life?" She looked at him very wistfully, almost pityingly. "How should that be?" she asked.
For I was anew upon the edge of a resolve to have done with all human interests and to seek the peace and seclusion of the cloister. And then I bethought me of Gervasio. I would go to him for guidance, as I had done aforetime. I would ride on the morrow to seek him out in the convent near Piacenza to which he had withdrawn.
With us, too, was Fra Gervasio, our chaplain. It was grim news that old Falcone brought us. He had never quitted my father in those six weary years of wandering until now that my father was beyond the need of his or any other's service. There had been a rising and a bloody battle at Perugia, Falcone informed us.
My brothers: Gervasio soldado distinguido of the San Francisco Company; Santiago, a cadet in the same company; Francesco and Toribio, whose presence at the table I beg you will overlook, for when we are so fortunate as to be all together, senor, we cannot bear to be separated.
Surprised at two o'clock in the morning by two Austrian divisions, which, concealed by the village of San Gervasio, had reached the right bank of the Adda without their being discovered, the soldiers defending the castle of Trezzo abandoned it and beat a retreat.
I know it, I know it! But I am not in the mood for discussing their proposition not just now. Here at San Gervasio I prefer to think only of the Roman singer, so sanely jovial, and of these waters as they flowed, limpid and cool, in the days when they fired his boyish fancy. Deliberately I refuse to hear the charmer Boissier.
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