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From Stresa we made a short détour, in order to have a day and night here on the Lago d'Orta, which although comparatively near Lake Maggiore is not often included in the itinerary of the fast traveling tourist, who usually hurries to Arona, Stresa, and Pallanza, which, beautiful as they are, lack something of the restful charm of this miniature lake set in the midst of a circle of well-wooded hills.
There can be little doubt that Saint Catherine of Pallanza, in her comparatively short life, really did more for the cause of true religion than did the pious Saint Catherine of Bologna, who lived almost twice as long within the walls of her quiet and tranquil convent.
The life of Catherine of Bologna was practically apart from the real life of her time; Catherine of Pallanza was sought out by people who were in need of her help, and she was able to give them wise counsel; Catherine of Genoa, representing the more practical side of the Christian spirit, went among the poor, the sick, and the needy, doing good on every hand.
My luck was not so good, or you wouldn't see me still alive, my dear." Vittoria sighed for a plainer speaker. Carlo's hours were passed chiefly across the lake, in the Piedmontese valleys. When at Pallanza he was restless, and he shunned the two or three minutes of privacy with his betrothed which the rigorous Italian laws besetting courtship might have allowed him to take.
He gave her hints of his foolish pique, his wrath and bitter baffled desire for her when, coming to Pallanza, he came to an empty house. But he could not help her to see, for he did not himself feel, that he had been spurred by silly passions, pique, and wrath, to plunge instantly into new political intrigue; and that some of his worst faults had become mixed up with his devotion to his country.
The sight of her dear steadfast friend prostrate in the cause of Italy, and who, if he lived to rise again, might not have his natural strength to bear the thought of her loss with his old brave firmness, made it impossible for her to act decisively in one direct line of conduct. Countess Ammiani wrote brief letters from Luino and Pallanza on Lago Maggiore.
I dare say you have guessed that I have a new journal in my head: the Pallanza Iris is to be the name of it; to be printed in three colours, to advocate three principles, in three styles. The Legitimists, the Moderates, and the Republicans are to proclaim themselves in its columns in prose, poetry, and hotch-potch. Once an editor, always an editor.
"See my last signature of not Vittoria; for I may sign that again and still be Emilia Alessandra Ammiani. The letter was sealed; Luigi bore it away, and a brief letter to Countess Ammiani, in Pallanza, as well.
"Oh, soon! or I feel that I shall hate any vestige of will that I have in this head of mine. Not in the heart it is not there! "And sometimes I am burning to sing. The voice leaps to my lips; it is quite like a thing that lives apart my prisoner. "It is true, Laura is here with Merthyr. "Could you come at once? not here, but to Pallanza? We shall both make our mother happy.
True; still she should have remembered her promise in the Vicentino. She did indeed; but how could she quit her wounded friend Merthyr? Perhaps not: then, why had she sent word to him from Milan that she would be at Pallanza? This question knocked at a sealed chamber. She was silent, and Carlo had to brood over something as well.
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