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What was the strong-fisted, simple-hearted priest beside such a sophist as Maestro Guglielmi! "The royal personage in question," continued Guglielmi, who read in Fra Pacifico's frank countenance that he had conquered his repugnance, "has done me the high honor of communicating to me his august sentiments. I have pledged myself to do all I can to prevent the catastrophe of law.
Guglielmi felt he must do something decisive, or that exalted personage who desired to avoid all scandal not connected with himself would be irretrievably offended, and he, Guglielmi, would never sit on the judicial bench. Yet, unscrupulous as he was, the trickster shuddered at the thought of what that lie might cost him.
Instinct told him some subtle scheme lay under the urgings of Guglielmi the dangerous civilities of the marchesa. He would go. The legal separation might be completed elsewhere. Why only at Corellia? Why must those formalities insisted on by Guglielmi be respected? What did they mean? Of the real drift of the delay Nobili was utterly ignorant.
He is about to leap out and fly, when the warning hand of the lawyer is laid upon his arm. Nobili shakes him off, but Guglielmi permits himself no indication of offense. Dejection and grief are depicted on his countenance. He shakes his head despondingly; his manner is dangerously fawning. He, too, has heard the dogs, the footsteps, and the whistle. He has drawn his own conclusions.
She raised her head with that snake-like action natural to her. The blood rushed to her face and neck. Guglielmi then still had hope? All was not lost. In an instant her energy returned to her. What could she do to keep him? Would Enrica Enrica was still within the chapel. The marchesa heard the murmur of voices coming through the corridor.
"Signore Guglielmi," said Nobili, with a significant glance at the open door, "allow me to repeat we need not detain you. We shall now act for ourselves. Without reference to the difficulties you have raised " "The difficulties I have raised have been for your own good, Count Nobili," was Guglielmi's indignant reply.
Not a sound broke the silence nothing save the striking of the clock at Corellia, bringing with it visions of the dark old church the kneeling women and the peace of God within. Even Argo and his friends Juno and Tuzzi, and the bull-dog were mute. About twelve o'clock the marchesa arrived from Lucca. In her company came the Cavaliere Trenta and Maestro Guglielmi. Fra Pacifico was in waiting.
Nobili is now close to him; his eyes are gathered upon him more threateningly than ever. "Remember, sir, you are addressing me in the presence of my wife be careful." What a withering look Nobili gives Guglielmi as he says this! He can with difficulty keep his hands off him! "Yes yes just so just so I applaud your sentiments, Count Nobili most appropriate. Now I will go."
It would have been a bold man who, with those eyes fixed on him, would have told a lie to Maestro Guglielmi, advocate in the High Court of Lucca. If any man had so lied, those eyes would have gathered up the light, and flashed it forth again in lightnings that might consume him.
He tried to persuade the management to give Mozart's opera instead, and, failing in that, had the malicious satisfaction of helping to turn the work of Bertati and Gazzaniga into a sort of literary and musical pasticcio, inserting portions of his own paraphrase of Bertati's book in place of the original scenes and preparing occasion for the insertion of musical pieces by Sarti, Frederici, and Guglielmi.
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