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"A great and terrible misfortune has happened, my Paolina; and I have run to you in all haste that you might not hear it from any lips but my own. You were going to say just now that you saw me with Bianca Lalli, were you not? Where and when did you see us?" "In a bagarino, driving towards the Pineta.
Only, while it accounted for her presence in the church of St. Apollinare, it left her departure from the church with her face turned, not towards the city, but towards the Pineta, unaccounted for.
I did receive the intelligence in question from the lady concerned, and I have just returned to the city. She communicated the fact to me during a little excursion we made together to the Pineta this morning, after the ball. Now you know all about it," said Ludovico, still in a hurry to get away. "Not quite!" rejoined Fortini, quite imperturbably.
Apollinare and to the Pineta quits the city, in order there to make inquiries, and the terrible reply to their inquiries that there met him. What that reply was had not been immediately clear to the lawyer.
They are the finest in the world. The marshes in the neighbourhood of the Pineta breed them in immense quantities." "Oh, I have heard so much of the Pineta. They say it is so lovely." "The most beautiful forest in the world. And this is just the time when it is in its greatest beauty, the early spring, when the wild flowers are all beginning to blossom, and the birds are all singing.
He had not formed any distinct intention of following his nephew and La Bianca to the Pineta till he reached his own house. He had happened to approach the Palazzo from the back, through the stable-yard; and had there found old Niccolo, the groom, up. Then the idea of waylaying the pair in the forest had occurred to him.
The police, you must remember, Signor Marchese, are already aware that you were cognizant of the Marchese Ludovico's intention of taking La Lalli to the Pineta. That has been ascertained from the admission of the Conte Leandro " "A thousand curses on the Conte Leandro," exclaimed the Marchese.
The reader will, it is hoped, remember also how, sallying forth after his early dinner for this purpose, Signor Fortini encountered the Marchese Ludovico in the street; how the latter communicated to the old lawyer the state of anxiety he was in about the Signorina Bianca Lalli, whom he had lost in the Pineta; and finally how the lawyer and the Marchese together had gone to the Porta Nuova, by which the road leading to St.
"Et mox" says a chronicle of the time, "subsecutus est eum patricius Theodoricus veniens in Pineta, et fixit fossatum, obsidiens Odoacrem clausum per trienum in Ravenna et factus est usque ad sex solidos modicus tritici...." Theodoric established himself in a fortified camp in the Pineta with a view to preventing food or reinforcements arriving to his enemy from the sea.
And then they had borrowed a door from the farm near St. Apollinare, and had brought the body here, and that was all they knew about it. "Had they seen any other person in the forest that morning?" "Not a soul; and they had been in that part of the Pineta, or at least at no great distance, all the morning from sunrise."
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