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Updated: June 21, 2025
Gianbattista and Lucia, seated side by side at the table, were looking into each other's eyes, and as Marzio fixed his gaze upon them, their hands joined upon the drawing-board, and an expression of happy surprise overspread their faces. Marzio smiled too, as he paused before completing the sentence.
Dear Don Paolo, nobody but you can arrange this affair " "Hush, hush, Tista. I cannot hear you talk in this way. Come, we will go back to Marzio. He will listen to reason " "Do you know what he said to me not a quarter of an hour before you came in?" asked Gianbattista quickly, laying his hand on the priest's arm. "He said I might have Lucia and welcome if I would kill you! Do you understand?
You are not hurt yourself?" he inquired, looking at Gianbattista curiously. "No; I am badly shaken, and my hands are a little cut that is all," answered the young man. "What a beautiful thing youth is!" observed the surgeon philosophically, as he went away. Gianbattista remained alone in the sick-room, seated upon his chair by the head of the bed.
That evening Marzio finished the last cherub's head on the ewer before he left the shop. He had sent Gianbattista home, and had dismissed the men who were working at a huge gilded grating ordered by a Roman prince for a church he was decorating.
After nearly a year's interval, Catherine wrote again, informing Michelangelo that she had deposited a sum of 6000 golden crowns at the bank of Gianbattista Gondi for the work, adding: "Consequently, since on my side nothing remains to be done, I entreat you by the affection you have always shown to my family, to our Florence, and lastly to art, that you will use all diligence and assiduity, so far as your years permit, in pushing forward this noble work, and making it a living likeness of my lord, as well as worthy of your own unrivalled genius.
I am not old yet, nor blind, nor shaky, thank God!" "I did not catch the last words," said Gianbattista, hiding his smile over his work. "I said I was not old, nor broken down yet, thanks to my strength," growled the chiseller; "you will not steal my commissions yet awhile. What is the matter with you to-day? You find fault with half I say, and the other half you do not hear at all.
She wanted to talk to him on her own account, in order to sound the depth of his determination. She was not afraid of him. The fact that for a long time he had regarded favourably the project of her marriage with Gianbattista had given her a confidence which was not to be destroyed in a moment, even by Marzio's strange conduct.
"Dear Sora Luisa, you are too good," said Gianbattista. "Let us go upstairs first, to begin with you will catch cold here on the steps. Come, come, courage, Sora Luisa!" He took the good woman's arm and led her upwards. But Don Paolo stayed behind.
He has admitted that he will have to consider the matter because he cannot make Lucia marry without her consent. But on the other hand poor Tista " he looked at the young man and hesitated. "He has turned me out," said Gianbattista. "He has given me an hour to leave his house. I believe a good part of the hour has passed already "
Gianbattista instinctively rose and put his arm about the girl's waist as they stood together and looked at the sick man. He felt that it was his duty to comfort her. "The doctor thinks he may get well," he said. "Who knows," she answered tearfully, and shook her head, "Oh, Tista, he was our best friend!" "It was in trying to save me " said the young fellow. But he got no further.
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