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"So was Athens," she interrupted, smiling; "but it was 'rather sluggish from its size and needed a gadfly to rouse it' " Riccardo struck his hand upon the table. "Why, we never thought of the Gadfly! The very man!" "Who is that?" "The Gadfly Felice Rivarez. Don't you remember him? One of Muratori's band that came down from the Apennines three years ago?" "Oh, you knew that set, didn't you?
When a Cardinal, especially such a popular one, 'prefers to stay' in a God-forsaken little hole like this, we all know what that means don't we, Rivarez?" The Gadfly was making smoke-rings. "Perhaps it is a c-c-case of a 'b-b-broken and contrite heart," he remarked, leaning his head back to watch them float away. "And now, men, let us get to business."
But first I must see Rivarez and speak to him alone." "Your Eminence if I might suggest I am sure you will regret it. For that matter, he sent me a message yesterday, by the guard, asking to see Your Eminence; but I took no notice of it, because " "Took no notice!" Montanelli repeated. "A man in such circumstances sent you a message, and you took no notice of it?"
Colonel Ferrari, the military Governor at Brisighella, is uncle to the officer that Rivarez wounded; he's a vindictive sort of brute and won't give up a chance to spite an enemy." "You think he will try to keep Rivarez here?" "I think he will try to get him hanged." Martini glanced quickly at Gemma. She was very pale, but her face had not changed at the words.
The gipsy, with a stiff bow and an angry shrug of her shoulders, took her officer's arm again, and, gathering up the train of her dress, swept past them to the contested carriage. "I will send it back to fetch you and the child, if you like, M. Rivarez," she said, pausing on the doorstep. "Very well; I will give the address."
"How does he come not to have been taken too? Did he run away and leave Rivarez in the lurch?" "It's not his fault; he fought as long as anybody did, and followed the directions given him to the letter. For that matter, so did they all. The only person who seems to have forgotten, or somehow made a mistake at the last minute, is Rivarez himself. There's something inexplicable about it altogether.
You may be sure every smuggler in the Apennines will do for a man who was in the Savigno revolt what he will not do for us. In the next place, there's hardly a man among us that knows the mountains as Rivarez does. Remember, he has been a fugitive among them, and knows the smugglers' paths by heart.
Michele shrugged his shoulders. "Unarmed men shouldn't poke their noses into the middle of a fight. War is war. If Rivarez had put a bullet into His Eminence, instead of letting himself be caught like a tame rabbit, there'd be one honest man the more and one priest the less." He turned away, biting his moustache. His anger was very near to breaking down in tears.
"And if Monsignor Montanelli had taken that post in Rome when he had the chance of getting it, Rivarez couldn't have fooled him." "He wouldn't take it because he didn't want to leave his work here." "More likely because he didn't want to get poisoned off by Lambruschini's agents. They've got something against him, you may depend upon it.
I suppose Rivarez must have been startled, for he dropped his pistol-hand and put the other one up like this" laying the back of his left wrist across his eyes "and of course they all rushed on him." "I can't make that out," said Michele. "It's not like Rivarez to lose his head at a crisis." "Probably he lowered his pistol for fear of killing an unarmed man," Martini put in.
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