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Assembling a great army of the supporters of the Guelph cause, the Florentines entered the Pistoian territories.
There is a sting of furious blasphemy in this; personal outrage that goes beyond all limits. Yet who is there, but does not feel glad that the "Pistoian" uttered what he uttered out of his Hell to his Maker? Is not Newman right when he says that the heart of man does not naturally "love God?"
Never, through the whole darkness of hell, beheld I a blasphemer so dire as this not even Capaneus himself." The Pistoian fled away with the serpents upon him, followed by a Centaur, who came madly galloping up, crying, "Where is the caitiff?"
Far away from the beaten track of travel, in a sunny cleft of the Pistoian Apennines, she saw the white fleeces grouped under vast chestnuts, the flash of copper buckets plunged by two peasant women into a gurgling fountain, the curly head of Bertie bowed over the rude stone basin, as he gayly coaxed the bearers to let him drink from the beautiful burnished copper; the rocky terraces cut in the beetling cliffs above, where dark ruby-red oleanders flouted the sky with fragrant banners; and the pathetic face of a vagrant ewe tangled among vines, high on a jagged ledge, bleating for the lamb asleep under the chestnuts down in the dell.
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