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Then, as I looked surprised, he added, more quietly: "I mean I'll go with you, and talk to Innocentina. Meanwhile, our things can be sent up to our rooms." Though he had asked "what the men at the other end of the room were like," he showed no desire to verify for himself the description I had given.
"It was not the fault of the little âne that the stone was loosened. How could she know? It is you who are hard of heart, to turn upon her thus. It is because you are Catholic, and believe that the beasts have no souls." "It is better to have none than to be a heretic, and the soul burn," retorted Innocentina. "I am not hard-hearted.
Up and up we dragged for hours, the Boy determined not to take to donkey-back, despite the protestations of Innocentina, emphatic, but slightly modified by constant association with the man she was engaged in converting.
Not a gleam in any window, save the bleak glint of moonlight on glass. Joseph and Innocentina were behind us with their charges, whose stored crusts of bread they had probably shared. I knocked at the doors No responsive sound from within. I pounded with my walking stick.
I thought of travelling with a caravan then I changed my mind to donkeys, and that led to Innocentina. I'd gone out with her up into the mountains, donkey-back, every day from Mentone two years ago. She had talked to me about Aosta. Her mother's people came from there. Always since, I had wanted to go. I wrote her. I began to make preparations for a long journey." "You got the bag!" I exclaimed.
If she were to be killed for it, she Innocentina could not tell how this great calamity had occurred. I thought that after such an alarming preface, the Boy would laugh when the mountain had brought forth its mouse, but he did no such thing. His little face looked anxious and forlorn in the white moonlight.
I went out to Lucerne, where Innocentina joined me with the donkeys; but it wasn't till we were away in the wilds that that the Boy appeared. I didn't mean to visit any very big towns afterwards, for it wasn't civilisation I wanted; but you came into the story, and I did lots of things I hadn't meant to do because of you, Man." "And I did lots of things I hadn't meant to do because of you, Boy."
There we fortified ourselves for a long walk, with eggs and café au lait, while Innocentina and Joseph grouped the animals at the foot of the steps. The day was divinely young, and most divinely fair, when we set forth. Only the soft fall of an occasional leaf, weary of keeping up appearances on no visible means of support, told that autumn had come.
I then snappishly ordered food of some sort, any sort except chocolate, and having, after a blank interval, obtained enough bread, cheese, and ham for at least ten persons, I divided the rations with Joseph and Innocentina, who had now come up. We had a short halt for rest and refreshment, taken simultaneously, and presently set out again, with a vague idea of plodding on as far as Orsières.
In his eagerness he raised his voice slightly, and the two young men at the other end of the salon seemed waked suddenly to renewed interest in us and our affairs. But the Boy's tone fell again instantly. "Innocentina must have a room at this hotel," he went on. "The châlet will be bad enough for Joseph. For her it would be impossible.
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