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Updated: May 19, 2025
What do you say? Shall we have it out? Pistols in the woods there. You've got all your infernal crew around you, you know. Well? What? You won't? By Jove!" Girasole's gesture showed that he declined the proposition. "Inglis milor," said he, with a venomous glitter in his eyes, "I sall haf youair life wis de pistol, but not in de duello. I sall blow your brain out myself."
He thought that this would be an effectual bar to any communication, and saw no other alternative than to wait Girasole's pleasure. It seemed to him that a ransom would be asked, and he felt sure, from Girasole's offensive manner, that the ransom would be large. But there was no help for it.
Willoughby, on her part, having thus discomfited the Baron, was not unmindful of the other danger; so she moved her seat to a position near enough to overlook and check Girasole, and then resumed those formal, chilling, heartless, but perfectly polite remarks which she had been administering to the Baron since Girasole's arrival. At length Mrs.
He wondered what reason Girasole might have to injure Ethel. But whatever hope he had that mercy might be shown her was counterbalanced by his own experience of Girasole's cruelty, and his knowledge of his merciless character. Suddenly he was roused by the rifle-shot and the confusion that followed. He saw the party on the mound start to their feet. He heard the shots that succeeded the first one.
Then there was the noise of rushing men, and Girasole's voice arose. He heard all that followed. Then Ethel's shriek sounded out, as she sprang toward the grave. In an instant the occupant of the grave, seizing the lid, raised it up, and with a wild yell sprang forth. The effect was tremendous. The brigands thought the dead Antonio had come to life.
He perceived that this grave, in the heart of the brigands' camp, afforded the very safest place in which he could be for the purpose of watching. Girasole's words had indicated that the work of burial would not be resumed that night, and if any passers-by should come they would avoid such a place as this. Here, then, he could stay until dawn at least, and watch unobserved.
Girasole's presence, also, was felt to be an additional guarantee of safety. It was felt by all to be a remarkable circumstance that so many men should have followed them on what they had intended as quite a secret journey. These gentlemen who followed them were the very ones, and the only ones, from whom they wished to conceal it. Yet it had all been revealed to them, and lo! here they all were.
Girasole's face grew white with rage and jealousy. "Aha!" said he. "You lof him. Aha! An' you were engage to him. Aha!" "Yes, I really think so." "Aha! Well, listen," cried Girasole, in a hoarse voice "listen. He he de rival de one you say you are engage he is dead!"
Girasole's excitement at Minnie's slight made him somewhat incoherent, his idioms were Italian rather than English, and his pronunciation was very bad; he also had a fashion of using an Italian word when he did not know the right English one, and so the consequence was that Mrs. Willoughby understood not much more than one-quarter of his remarks. Mrs.
"Oh, Heaven!" he thought; "can this woman be what I have thought her? But if not, what a villain am I! Yet now I must rather believe myself to be a villain than her!" In the midst of this prayer Girasole's voice sounded, and then Minnie's tones came clearly audible. The lady rose and listened, and a great sigh of relief escaped her.
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