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"You are mine," he whispered, "mine as by a miracle!" There was such rapture in his voice that heaven came down into her heart, and every doubt was stilled. At this moment Fra Pacifico's towering figure appeared ascending a lower flight of steps toward them, coming from the house.
"Would Nobili say nothing in justification?" Spite of himself, Fra Pacifico's fists clinched themselves under his vestments. But Nobili was about to speak. He gave a hurried glance round the circle upon Enrica kneeling at the altar; with the air of a man who forces himself to do a hateful penance, he broke silence.
He uncovered her feet, and felt her heart, her hands, her forehead, lifting up the shining curls as he did so with a tender touch, and laying them out upon the pillow, as reverently as he would replace a relic. Cavaliere Trenta stood beside him in breathless silence. Was it life or death? Looking into Fra Pacifico's motionless face, none could tell.
In that letter I referred to Don Pacifico's case; and I am sure that the noble Lord the Member for Tiverton will remember a despatch which he received through Baron Brunnow, from Count Nesselrode, on that subject, a despatch which I think the House will forgive my reading to it on the present occasion, as it gives the Russian Government's estimation of that act of 'material guarantee' on the part of England:
"Silence!" thundered Fra Pacifico "silence, I command you! What you say of that pure and lovely girl whose soul is as crystal before me, is absolute sacrilege. I will not listen to it!" Fra Pacifico's eyes flashed fire. He looked as if he would strike Count Nobili where he stood.
Pipa had to muffle her face in her handkerchief to drown her sobs. Then Fra Pacifico's impressive voice broke the silence with the opening words of exhortation. "Deus Israel sit vobiscum." "Gloria patri," was the response in Angelo's childish treble. Enrica and Nobili now knelt side by side. Two lighted tapers, typical of chaste love, were placed on the floor beside them on either hand.
The outrage on Don Pacifico's bedstead remained the head and front of Greek offending, but Lord Palmerston included all the other slight blunders and delays of justice in one sweeping indictment; made the private claims into a national demand, and peremptorily informed the Greek Government that they must pay what was demanded of them within a given time.
Now, hearing what he said, Fra Pacifico's anger had vanished. After all, he had not been mistaken in his old pupil! Nobili was neither cruel nor heartless; but he had been driven to bay! Now he pitied him, profoundly. What could he say to him? He could urge Nobili no more. He must work out his own fate! Again Nobili spoke.
Still she pitied her old friend, although no word expressed it; nothing but the pressure of her hand resting upon his shoulder. Trenta's sobs were the only sound that broke the silence. "This is losing time," she said. "Send at once for Fra Pacifico. Until he comes, we know nothing." When Fra Pacifico's rugged, mountainous figure entered Enrica's room, he seemed to fill it.
"Not twenty-four," suggests Guglielmi, blandly, putting the deed into his pocket and taking out his watch with extraordinary rapidity, then replacing it as rapidly; "it is now seven o'clock. At nine o'clock to-morrow morning the deed of separation shall be signed, and you, Count Nobili, will be free." At that moment Fra Pacifico's tall figure barred the doorway.
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