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The banditti, inflamed by the opprobium with which he loaded their order, threatened instant punishment to his temerity; and the authority of Riccardo could hardly restrain them within the limits of forbearance. The menaces, and at length entreaties of the duke, to prevail with his son to abandon his present way of life, were equally ineffectual.
"Shall I give you some more opium? Riccardo said you were to have it if the pain got very bad." "No, thank you; I can bear it a bit longer. It may be worse later on." Martini shrugged his shoulders and sat down beside the bed. For an interminable hour he watched in silence; then he rose and fetched the opium. "Rivarez, I won't let this go on any longer; if you can stand it, I can't.
And yet, how can I smile, when my heart is breaking? He said that the Riccardo was the loveliest woman he had ever seen. Alas! I remember the day when he knelt at my feet, and spoke thus of me. Oh, my Franz! Am I indeed old, and no longer lovable?"
He cares more for it, I think." There was a curious, sullen defiance in her manner. "Well, I hope it won't be so bad any more," said Martini kindly. "Dr. Riccardo is taking the case seriously in hand. Perhaps he will be able to make a permanent improvement. And, in any case, the treatment gives relief at the moment. But you had better send to us at once, another time.
She had deep, serious black eyes, but as she raised them now there was an unmistakable gleam of amusement in them. "I am afraid," she said; "that I disagree with everybody." "You always do, and the worst of it is that you are always right," Riccardo put in. "I think it is quite true that we must fight the Jesuits somehow; and if we can't do it with one weapon we must with another.
No; the ballet-girl is real enough and handsome enough, too, for those who like shrewish beauty. Personally, I don't. She's a Hungarian gipsy, or something of that kind, so Riccardo says; from some provincial theatre in Galicia. He seems to be rather a cool hand; he has been introducing the girl to people just as if she were his maiden aunt."
By the body of my holy ancestor, San Riccardo, I will disgrace you publicly disgrace you!" Trenta's rosy face had grown purple, his lips worked convulsively. He raised his stick, and flourished it in the air, as if about to make it descend like a truncheon on Baldassare's shoulders. Adonis drew back a step or two, following with his eyes the cavaliere's movements.
A FEW days later, the Gadfly, still rather pale and limping more than usual, entered the reading room of the public library and asked for Cardinal Montanelli's sermons. Riccardo, who was reading at a table near him, looked up. He liked the Gadfly very much, but could not digest this one trait in him this curious personal maliciousness.
Secure in his own power, Riccardo laughed at the first, and was insensible to the latter; and his father was compelled to relinquish the attempt. The duke, however, boldly and passionately accused him of having plundered and secreted a lady and cavalier, his friends, at the same time describing Julia, for whose liberation he offered large rewards.
The next moment, however, she saw plainly what it was a hunchback, dwarfish and ugly, grotesquely attired in a fool's dress, with paper cap and bells. He evidently belonged to the strolling company, and was amusing the crowd with hideous grimaces and contortions. "What is going on out there?" asked Riccardo, approaching the window. "You seem very much interested."
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