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Updated: June 11, 2025
But he trembles lest by offending her the tender flower before him may never again expand to the ardor of his love. If Fra Pacifico has not by his arguments already shaken Nobili's conviction of the righteousness of his own conduct, the sight of Enrica utterly overcomes him. "Deceive you!" he exclaims, approaching her and seizing her hands which she did not withdraw "deceive you!
Both he and the priest bend low to the high altar, dip their fingers in the holy-water, cross themselves, bend again to the altar, turning right and left before leaving the cathedral. "That's Fra Pacifico," cries Carlotta, greatly excited "Fra Pacifico, the Marchesa Guinigi's chaplain. He's come down from Corellia for the festival."
Fra Pacifico lived at the back of the old Lombard church of Santa Barbara, in a house overlooking a damp square, overgrown with moss and weeds. In the loggia, Fra Pacifico, when at leisure, would sit and rest and read his breviary; sometimes smoke a solitary pipe stretching out his shapely legs in the luxury of doing nothing.
Woe betide all but Fra Pacifico, who had so often licked him in drawn battles, when the dog had leaped upon him, that now Argo fled at sight of his priestly garments with a howl! Adamo, who, after his mid-day meal, required tobacco and repose, would not move to save any one's soul, much less his body.
Its waves were quiet and placid. He called it the Peaceful Sea, the Mare Pacifico. Then he continued in a western direction. He sailed for ninety-eight days without seeing land. His people almost perished from hunger and thirst and ate the rats that infested the ships, and when these were all gone they chewed pieces of sail to still their gnawing hunger. In March of the year 1521 they saw land.
Nothing passed between them, nothing. They never met but twice, both times in my presence." Fra Pacifico was satisfied. "God be praised!" he muttered to himself. Still holding the letter in his hand, the priest turned toward Enrica. Again he felt her pulse, and passed his broad hand across her forehead. "No change!" he said, sadly "no change! Poor child, how she must have suffered! And alone, too!
Why had the marchesa offered her in marriage to Count Marescotti without telling her? At this moment Enrica loathed her. Something of all this passed over her pallid face as she turned her eyes beseechingly toward Fra Pacifico. The marchesa watched her with secret rage. Was this silly, love-sick child about to annihilate the labors of her life?
This the marchesa fails to see; but I see it, and you see it, my father." Fra Pacifico shook himself all over as though silently rejecting any possible participation in Maestro Guglielmi's arguments.
Pacifico the miraculous Gibraltar Jew has been hustled by some populace in Greece: upon him let the British Lion drop, very rapidly indeed, a constitutional tear.
She rose slowly to her feet, and cast her eyes round at the group of happy faces about her; all happy save the poor notary, on whose forehead the big drops of sweat were standing. "Come, my daughter," said Fra Pacifico, advancing, "fear not to sign the marriage-contract. Think of the blessings it will bring to hundreds of miserable peasants, who are suffering from your want of means to help them!"
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