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Updated: May 13, 2025
We went up the steps and into the cool of the great hall. There the soldier, whose every feeling had been outraged no doubt by Rinolfo's attitude towards his lord, ventured to express his sympathy and indignation. "Rinolfo is a black beast, Madonnino," he muttered.
I was the very son of Giovanni d'Anguissola. "What force attends the captain?" I inquired. "He has six mounted men with him," replied Rinolfo. "In that case," I answered, "you will bid him begone in my name." "And if he should not go?" was Rinolfo's impudent question. "You will tell him that I will drive him hence him and his braves.
"To-day, for instance, at what is almost your first contact with the world, you indulge your human feelings to commit a violence; that you did not kill is as much an accident as that you broke Rinolfo's leg. I do not say that you did a very sinful thing. In a worldly youth of your years the provocation you received would have more than justified your action.
Finally I learnt that coming that morning upon half a score of poor fluttering terrified birds held fast in Rinolfo's viscous snares, the little girl had given them their liberty and had set about breaking up the springes. At this occupation he had caught her, and there is no doubt that he would have taken a rude vengeance but for the sanctuary which she had found in me.
I told it how the child out of a very gentle and Christian pity had released the poor birds that were taken in Rinolfo's limed twigs, and how in a fury he had made to beat her, so that she had fled to me for shelter and protection; and how, thereupon, I had bidden him begone out of that garden, and never set foot in it again.
His keen eyes went from me to my mother and then back again to me. "What has happened?" he asked. "What has not happened?" wailed my mother. "Agostino is possessed." He knit his brows. "Possessed?" quoth he. "Ay, possessed possessed of devils. He has been violent. He has broken poor Rinolfo's leg." "Ah!" said Gervasio, and turned to me frowning with full tutorial sternness.
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