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I shall only be three days away. I'll bring back the public prosecutor with me, and then we'll sift this wretched business to the bottom. Will you promise me you will abstain from all hostilities till then?" "I can not promise that, monsieur, if, as I expect, Orlanduccio asks me to meet him." "What, Signor della Rebbia!
It bore the signature of the elder Barricini, and informed Orso that he was laying the threatening letter sent to his son before the public prosecutor. His missive concluded thus: "Strong in the sense of a clear conscience, I patiently wait till the law has pronounced on your calumnies." Meanwhile five or six herdsmen, summoned by Colomba, arrived to garrison the della Rebbia Tower.
The upshot was that the Barricini suffered no inconvenience, the examining magistrate was loud in his praise of the mayor, and the mayor, on his side, crowned his handsome behaviour by relinquishing all his claims over the stream, concerning which he had brought the lawsuit against Colonel della Rebbia.
There I stayed, with my man, for six mortal hours, M. della Rebbia. I'd have staid three days, if it had been necessary. At the end of six hours a Bastiaccio, a vile money-lender, made his appearance. As he bent down to take up the money, I fired, and I had aimed so well that, as he fell, his head dropped upon the coins he was unearthing.
"Really and truly, Monsieur della Rebbia!" said Miss Nevil, "you slander your sister!" "No. As you have said it yourself, she is a Corsican; she thinks as they all think. Do you know why I was so sad yesterday?" "No. But for some time past you have been subject to these fits of sadness. You were much pleasanter in the earlier days of our acquaintance."
After a hasty conclave, the two herdsmen concluded their wisest plan was to throw the dead pig into a bog, and this project they carefully executed, after each had duly carved himself several slices out of the body of this innocent victim of the feud between the Barricini and the della Rebbia.
"Orso della Rebbia will never set his foot inside the house of a Barricini!" exclaimed Colomba impetuously. "Monsieur," replied Colomba resolutely, "you are deceived. You do not know the lawyer. He is the most cunning and knavish of men. I beseech you not to make Orso do a thing that would overwhelm him with dishonour!" "Colomba!" exclaimed Orso, "your passion has driven you out of your senses!"
"Signor della Rebbia, you did wrong! You must give me your word of honour to abstain from all violence, and to wait till the law settles this cursed business." "Yes, Signor Prefetto, I was wrong to strike that villain. But I did strike him, after all, and I can't refuse him the satisfaction he has demanded of me." "Pooh! no! He doesn't want to fight you! But supposing he murders you?
"No, M. della Rebbia," she said, interrupting him, "I know you to be a most honourable gentleman. You have told me yourself that it was only the common people in your country who still practised the vendetta which you are pleased to describe as a kind of duel." "Do you, then, believe me capable of ever becoming a murderer?"
"My suffering is all gone now," said Orso, "and I should like to die here!" And his right hand crept up toward Miss Lydia's, which Colomba still held captive. "You really must be taken to some place where you can be properly cared for, Signor della Rebbia," said Miss Nevil. "I shall never be able to sleep in my bed, now that I have seen you lying here, so uncomfortable, in the open air."
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