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Updated: June 12, 2025
I may say that I am a great admirer of your work, and my daughter, too, for that matter." Reanda said something civil as his hand parted from the Scotchman's. Francesca saw an opportunity of bringing Reanda and Gloria together. "As you like Signor Reanda's painting so much," she said to Dalrymple, "will you not bring your daughter this afternoon to see the frescoes he is doing in my house?
He thought that Reanda looked better, less harassed and less thin, than for a long time. He had at once returned to his old peaceful life and enjoyed it, and had evidently not the smallest intention of ever demanding satisfaction of his former friend. Francesca Campodonico had listened in nervous silence to Reanda's story. "She has done me a kindness," he concluded. "It is the first.
Cardinal Antonelli was not the only one, for there have been Italian prime ministers as well as dignitaries of the Church, whose origin was as humble and who owed their subsequent distinction to the kindly interest bestowed on them by nobles on whose estates their parents were mere peasants, very far inferior in station to Angelo Reanda's father, a man of a certain education, occupying a position of trust and importance.
Nor was Reanda's priestly education anything but an advantage to him, so far as his career was concerned, however much it had raised him above the class in which he had been born. So far as latinity and rhetoric were to be counted he was better educated than his father's master; for with the same advantages he had greater talents, greater originality, and greater industry.
It was not in her nature to accept such a termination for Reanda's married life, however he himself might be disposed to look upon it. "You are to blame almost as much as Gloria," she said, and she was sincerely in earnest. She was too good and devout a woman to believe in duelling, but she was far too womanly to be pleased with Reanda's indifference.
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