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Updated: June 19, 2025
But Rico did not take the same view of the affair as his little friend. He had thought over Mrs. Menotti's words, and now asked, anxiously, "I do not understand how Silvio's house can belong to me because our fathers were friends." It now occurred to Mrs.
"Well, I am satisfied," said the landlord, and understood that his wife had made a hit this time that was sure to turn out well. The next morning, the landlady of the "Golden Sun" stood on the doorstep of her inn, and looked at the heavens to read the signs of the probable weather, and to think over the experiences of the night before. Presently the gardener's boy from Mrs. Menotti's came along.
"Certainly," replied the lad. "In eight days I shall be back again." In Mrs. Menotti's hands he placed his beloved fiddle, for he would not have trusted it to any one else; and then he took his leave for eight days, for he could easily be back again in that time, if every thing went well.
You may remember that, on the night when seven hundred men and a cannon attacked Menotti's house, the Duke was seen looking on at the slaughter from an arcade across the square. Well, among the lesser fry taken that night was a lad of eighteen, Emilio Verna, who was the only brother of Donna Candida. The Verna family was one of the most respected in Modena.
I don't know how it turned out. She never said she was unhappy, but she died after eight years, leaving her three little girls to be brought up by their father's sister." Olive knew little more than this of her aunt. Further questioning elicited the fact that Signor Menotti's name was Ernesto. "The girls are your cousins, Olive dear, and you have no other relations. I should like to see them."
It sounded so well in the large, lofty space, where it was quiet and peaceful, without a taint of tobacco-smoke, or the clamor of noisy men; and he was not confined to dance music, but at liberty to play as his fancy directed. Every day he went with increasing pleasure to Mrs. Menotti's, and often said to himself, as he entered, "This is the way it must feel when one is entering his own home."
The laws were set aside as the Duke pleased was not Emilio hanged for having an ode to Italy in his desk? After Menotti's conspiracy the Duke grew mad with fear he was haunted by the dread of assassination. The police, to prove their zeal, had to trump up false charges and arrest innocent persons you remember the case of poor Ricci?
He knew more stories to tell Silvio than ever before; and when he took his fiddle in his hand, he produced such heart-stirring tones and tunes, that Mrs. Menotti could not tear herself from the room where the boys were, and was full of astonishment at Rico's store of music. It was only in this room at Mrs. Menotti's that Rico fully enjoyed his instrument.
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