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"You must have a reason to give me and a good one," he said gravely. "I have." She turned slowly away and began to walk alone. He followed her. "You must tell it," he said. "Tell it? Yes, I will tell it to you. It is a solemn promise before God, given to a man who died in my arms to my husband. Would you have me break such a vow?" "Yes." Orsino drew a long breath.
Of course it is very disagreeable for you." It was Flavia who spoke. "Disagreeable? How?" "Why, about Orsino of course. Everybody says he is devoted to her." "I wish everybody would mind his and her business," said Giovanni sharply. "Because a boy makes the acquaintance of a stranger at a studio " "Oh it was at a studio? I did not know that."
There was a short, sharp sob, and then a sound of passionate weeping filled the silent room. Strongly and tenderly Orsino laid his dead friend upon the couch as he had lain alive but two minutes earlier. He crossed the hands upon the breast and gently closed the staring eyes. He could not have had Maria Consuelo see him as he had fallen, when she next looked up.
"But less well," said Orsino rather harshly. "You would believe that, at least, and the thought would always be between us." "If you loved me as much, you would not hesitate. You would marry me living, as you married him dead." "If there were no other reason against it " She stopped. "There is no other reason," said Orsino insisting.
Orsino came to him with a small sum of ready money in his hand. Del Ferice had it in his power to make him lose that sum, and a great deal more besides, thereby causing the boy endless trouble with his family; or else the banker could, if he pleased, help him to a very considerable success.
Probably nothing which Spicca could have said could have surprised Orsino more than such a plain statement. He grew suspicious at once, but Spicca's look was that of a man in earnest. "I do not think I understand you," answered Orsino. "But I think you are touching a subject which is better left alone." "I think not," returned Spicca unmoved.
Moreover, this is a public place, in which we have accidentally met and dined together before." "I did not come here by accident," answered Orsino. "And I did not come in order to give explanations but to ask for one." "Ah?" Spicca eyed him coolly. "Yes. I wish to know why you have hated your daughter all her life, why you persecute her in every way, why you " "Will you kindly stop?"
Thus there were five armies in Rome: Caesar's army, holding the Vatican and the Borgo; the army of the Bishop of Nicastro, who had received from Alexander the guardianship of the Castle Sant' Angelo and had shut himself up there, refusing to yield; the army of the Sacred College, which was stationed round about the Minerva; the army of Prospero Colonna, which was encamped at the Capitol; and the army of Fabio Orsino, in barracks at the Ripetta.
She was more forgiving than Giovanni. "I will tell you this much, my dear boy," she said, at last. "That old quarrel did concern me and no one else. Your father feels more strongly about it than I do, because he fought for me and not for himself. You trust me, Orsino. You know that I would rather see you dead than doing anything dishonourable. Very well.
Old Saracinesca wished that the tenant might have been at least a diplomatist, and cursed the American by his gods, but Giovanni said that his wife had shown good sense in getting as much as she could for the palace. "We shall not need it till Orsino grows up unless you marry again," said Sant' Ilario to his father, with a laugh.
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