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Updated: June 19, 2025
The more one tries to peer into such veiled, down-drooping eyes, the more do they fascinate, since they still withhold a part of their mystery. What her eyes held and there was often a roguish gleam in the corners and in particular what thoughts of himself they hid, Mansana would have given much to know.
But happiness in this world is doomed to be transient. A quarter of an hour previously Giuseppe Mansana had marked Luigi in the crowd, and with the instinct of jealousy he had been watching him from a distance an easy enough matter for one of his height.
"Jesting with her!" repeated Mansana scornfully, with clenched fists and knitted brows; whilst Sardi interjected: "Who is to look after her when you are gone?" "I shall not go!" shouted Mansana. "You will not go? Have you lost your senses?" "I shall not go," repeated Mansana, his hands and arms raised above his head as if in confirmation of an oath. Sardi was taken aback.
Young girls do not take a pledge of this kind au pied de la lettre, when it seems to them unreasonable. Besides, Mansana had left the place. So the next day came the day of the fête. It was a fine warm autumn morning, and Amanda was up and ready betimes. The bands of music had marched through the streets at sunrise, and the cannon had thundered a salute.
"Is it you, Major Sardi?" she answered, and added hastily: "But Mansana? What of him? You mentioned his name." "Yes. This is his mother." The Major presented the younger lady to the elder. As the mother drew her veil aside, the calm, noble face that was revealed filled Theresa with an instant sense of confidence and strength.
Mansana did so: "Gone away; will write. That was all. Heedless of the old woman, who called after him to ask what the paper said, he flung it from him and strode hastily away. When the Princess Leaney arrived at Ancona on the following day, and found no Mansana there to greet her at the railway station, she was seized by a sudden indefinable apprehension.
They travelled together, and in a few words Mansana heard how this meeting had come about. After information which Sardi had given them, they had sought Luigi, in the belief that he would know what had become of the Brandinis, and that, sooner or later, Mansana would be certain to make his way to them.
Mansana then descended the balcony in the same way as that by which he had gone up.
Before the hour of deliverance came, Mansana was beheaded and committed to his grave among the dead companions of his imprisonment, the thieves and murderers, who lay buried in the great Cemetery of the Malefactors, whence his bones had been removed this day. And now his widow was there to await all that was left of him.
They wandered round the circle of her guests, and lighted upon Mansana, who, absorbed in his own thoughts, had unconsciously placed himself in front of the audience, and was standing close beside the piano. The Master was playing a piece called "Longing," a melody that seemed like the cry of a soul seeking consolation from out of the deepest abysses of sorrow.
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