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"Aunt Rudini!" she called excitedly, "you are back at last. Oh, Maria will be so glad!" Señora Rudini looked up, fear and hope in her eyes. "Maria!" she exclaimed, "where is she?" "At the convent. She is helping to nurse the soldiers," Lucia replied. "Oh, and I thought she was dead or a prisoner. She lay down beside me one night, and the next morning she was gone; I have been terrified."
In passing, one may remember that Mazarin himself was born in the Region of Trevi, the son of a Sicilian, like Crispi and Rudinì.
Villari had been appointed Professor of History at Nice, but left that city for a similar position at Florence. He entered political life in 1862, and has sat as a Parliamentary Deputy several times. In 1884 he was made senator, and in 1891 he was minister of public instruction in the Rudini Cabinet. Villari's essays on Dante are much esteemed.
Rudiní as minister of foreign affairs began with a blunder which might well have been fatal.
The clouds of the night before and the mist of the early morning had disappeared, and the market-place was bathed in warm golden sunshine. Lucia picked up her pails and hurried to her aunt's stall. "Well, you are late," Maria said. "We thought you had stubbed your toe and spilled all the milk." "And only two half-full pails again," Señora Rudini grumbled.
Von Keudall was succeeded by his antithesis, a nullity in court and country of whom even his fellow diplomats could say nothing in praise. The Rudiní ministry had no long life and merited no more, while that of Giolitti, which followed, ended in scandal and disaster.
In the Chamber there was only the extreme Left which opposed the war policy, and the order of the day which was accepted by the government as the war programme was presented by the Marquis di Rudiní, then head of the opposition, and carried by an enormous majority. As I was present at the sitting of the Chamber at which the vote was taken I do not speak uncertainly.
Old Nana Rudini, her grandmother, was sitting in a low chair beside the table in the low-ceilinged room. Her head nodded drowsily, and the white lace that she was making lay neglected in her lap. Lucia smiled to herself in satisfaction and stole gently away from the window. The Rudinis lived about a mile beyond the north gate of Cellino, an old Italian town built on the summit of a hill.
And Rudiní assured me when I went to pay the formal visit of congratulation on his accession to power, that the King had said that he was in the position of the young Emperor of Germany when he threw off the yoke of Bismarck he was tired of Crispi's strong hand. The King later denied the statement in an audience he gave me, but I am afraid that Rudiní was, for a novelty, nearer the truth.
In the succeeding ministry the King had the unprecedented courage to refuse to accept Rudiní and his programme, but admitted his inclusion in the ministry of General Ricotti, an old and admirable soldier and military organizer, who was resolved to begin his administration by a long desired and needed reorganization of the army, reducing its numbers and increasing its efficiency.
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