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"Everything is settled, and they will be man and wife as soon as possible." "And I request that you be good enough to tell me if I can be of any service to them." And here we may safely leave Renzo and Lucia.
At daybreak Renzo was awakened by a shake and a voice calling, "Lorenzo Tramaglino." "Eh, what does this mean? What do you want? Who told you my name?" said Renzo, starting up, amazed to find three men, two of them fully armed, standing at his bedside. "You must come with us. The high sheriff wants to have some words with you."
It is the heart, the will that He desires. But you could not offer Him the will of another, to Whom you had pledged yourself." "Have I done wrong?" "No, my poor child. But tell me, have you no other motive that hinders you from fulfilling your promise to Renzo?" Lucia blushed crimson. "Nothing else," she whispered. "Then, my child, you know that the Church has power to absolve you from your vow?"
Beseech the Lord again for those graces you once besought to make you a holy wife; and rely on it, He will bestow them upon you after so many sorrows." "Has Renzo told you," Fra Cristoforo continued, "whom he has seen here?" "Oh, yes, father, he has!" "You will pray for him. Don't be weary of doing so. And pray also for me."
Barrymore explained to Aunt Kathryn that this was the country of I Promessi Sposi because the scenes of Manzoni's romance had been laid in the neighbourhood, I could see as plainly as if they lay before my eyes the quaint woodcuts representing the beautiful heroine, Lucia, her lover, Renzo, and the wicked Prince Innominato.
My friends," he shouted, "they're carrying me off because yesterday I shouted 'Bread and Justice! Don't abandon me, my friends!" The crowd at once began to press forward, and the bailiffs, fearing danger, let go of his hands and tried to disappear into the crowd. Renzo was carried off safely.
The town of Ceres, made famous by Renzo da Ceri, who defended by turns Marseilles against Charles V. and Geneva against the Duke of Savoy, is nothing but a solitude. In all the fiefs of the Orsinis and the Colonnes not a soul.
Mingling with the hurrying mob, Renzo soon discovered that they had been engaged in sacking a bakery, and were filled with fury to find large quantities of flour, the existence of which the authorities had denied. "The superintendent! The tyrant! We'll have him, dead or alive!"
"Did ye say them guys had a trick of jabbin' men in their hammicks at night, Renzo?" was Tim's significant question after the Indians had departed. "Have no fear," Lourenço assured him. "They have promised to take us safely to their chief." "How much is the word of a cannibal worth?" asked Knowlton. "Worth everything, so long as you do nothing to make them forget it, senhor.
"Go and wait in the church, where you may employ yourself profitably," was the porter's advice, which Renzo was about to follow, when a tumultuous crowd came in sight. Here, apparently, was matter of greater interest, so he turned aside to see the cause of the uproar. The cause, though Renzo did not at the time discover it, was the shortage of the bread supply.
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