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Preceded by this troop of skirmishers, the last descendant of the della Rebbia entered the village, and proceeded to the old mansion of his forefathers, the corporals. The Rebbianites, who had long been leaderless, had gathered to welcome him, and those dwellers in the village who observed a neutral line of conduct all came to their doorsteps to see him pass by.
"Oh, the merry life a bandit lives!" cried the student of theology, after he had swallowed a few mouthfuls. "You'll try it some day, perhaps, Signor della Rebbia, and you'll find out how delightful it is to acknowledge no master save one's own fancy!" Hitherto the bandit had talked Italian. He now proceeded in French.
He made a signal with his head to some comrade, whom the witness could not see, and then disappeared among the vines. The woman Pietri dropped her burden, ran up the path, and found Colonel della Rebbia, bathed in his own blood from two bullet wounds, but still breathing.
This monument of public utility was constructed at the common expense of the della Rebbia and Barricini families. But the man who imagined this to be a sign of former friendship between the two families would be sorely mistaken. On the contrary, it is the outcome of their mutual jealousy.
The grocer who kept the post-office at Pietranera, and the old maimed soldier who had been the village policeman both of them attached to the della Rebbia family were turned adrift, and their places filled by Barricini's creatures. The colonel's wife died, and her last wish was that she might be buried in the middle of the little wood in which she had been fond of walking.
"No, they are the colonel's English guns and they are as good as they are handsome." "How much I wish you had one like them!" said Colomba. "One of those three certainly does belong to della Rebbia," exclaimed the colonel. "He really shoots almost too well! To-day he fired fourteen shots, and brought down fourteen head of game."
For on the Continent, quite contrary to their practice in their own island, Corsicans quickly become friends. This fact was clearly exemplified on the present occasion. As long as della Rebbia and Barricini remained in Italy they were close friends.
If you have seen any wit in what he has just said you must certainly have put it there yourself." "It is the Marquis de Mascarille, I think, who says that, M. della Rebbia. But would you like me to give you a proof of my clear-sightedness? I am something of a witch, and I can read the thoughts of people I have seen only twice." "Good heavens! you alarm me.
That was a splendid battalion, M. della Rebbia, that first battalion of the Eighteenth all of them Corsicans, as I was afterward told!" "Yes," said Orso, whose eyes had shone as he listened to the story. "They covered the retreat, and brought back their eagle. Two thirds of those brave fellows are sleeping now on the plains of Vittoria!"
She strove to force a smile as she pressed the colonel to come to table, and suggested twenty plausible reasons, which she herself demolished within an instant, to account for her brother's delay. The colonel, feeling it to be his duty, as a man, to reassure the ladies, put forward his own explanation. "I'll wager," he said, "that della Rebbia has come across some game or other.
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