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Updated: June 4, 2025
Lady Isobel took it carefully up and looked at the title-page. 'It is a treasure, Bobby. It is an old Italian Bible Martini's translation, of course. I know Italian, and used to spend a good deal of my time in Italy when I was a girl. Now show me your wonderful picture. Bobby took hold of the Bible with flushed eager face, and turned to almost the last page of it.
"I have not the slightest doubt as to Martini's trustworthiness and efficiency in every respect; and I think he would probably consent to give us any help he could. But " He understood at once. "Gemma, what would you feel if you found out that a comrade in bitter need had not asked you for help you might have given, for fear of hurting or distressing you?
I can do any practical work there is to be done, and you can send a message to your men, explaining " "And let you get killed instead? That would be very clever." "Oh, I'm not likely to get killed! They don't know me as they do you. And, besides, even if I did " He stopped, and the Gadfly looked up with a slow, inquiring gaze. Martini's hand dropped by his side.
Life, and all the horror of life, came back into Martini's face. "How can I tell her?" he cried out. "You might as well ask me to go and stab her. Oh, how can I tell her how can I!" He had clasped both hands over his eyes; but, without seeing, he felt the smuggler start beside him, and looked up. Gemma was standing in the doorway. "Have you heard, Cesare?" she said. "It is all over.
My dear sister, you are always so very clever, and contrived it all so charmingly that, just underneath your congratulations in Italian, followed M. Martini's compliments in the same style of penmanship, so that I could not possibly find you out; nor did I do so, and I immediately said to papa, "Oh! how I do wish I were as clever and witty as she is!"
To this rule Gemma, apparently, formed an exception; he seemed to have taken a dislike to her from the time of their first meeting, and in every way avoided her company. On two or three occasions he was actually rude to her, thus bringing upon himself Martini's most cordial detestation.
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