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Updated: September 11, 2025
"Terra Vergine Commune of Ruscino owners Alba from 1620 family of good report regular taxpayers sixty hectares land productive; value just so humph, humph, humph!" Then he laid down the documents and looked at Don Silverio from over his spectacles. "I conclude, most reverend, that you come empowered by this young man to treat with us?"
"Perhaps, with time, your mother may soften to her; but I doubt it." "The house is mine," said Adone sullenly. "She shall not keep Nerina out of it." "You certainly cannot turn your mother away from her own hearth," replied Don Silverio with contempt. "I tell you I will take the girl to some place in Ruscino where she will be safe for the present time.
Ruscino, placed midway in the valley, is only a village to which no traveller has for many years come, and of which no geographer ever speaks; it is marked on the maps of military topographers, and is, of course, inscribed on the fiscal rolls, but is now no more than a village; though once, when the world was young, it was the Etruscan Rusciae, and then the Latin Ruscinonis; and then, when the Papacy was mighty, it was the militant principality of the fortified town of Ruscino.
The rights of the Lords of Ruscino might be but shadows of far-off things, things of tradition, of history, of romance, but the rights of the peasant proprietors of the Terra Vergine must, he thought, be respected if there were any justice upon earth, for they were plainly writ down in the municipal registers of San Beda.
True, the country of each of these was like that of this valley, depopulated and wild; but, however great a solitude any land may be, it is still locally and administratively dependent on the chief town of its commune. Ruscino and its valley were dependent on San Beda; these two other communes were respectively under a little town of the Abruzzo and under a seaport of the Adriatic.
These proposals, indeed, were made by his messengers. But when the princes of the Gauls, having immediately moved their camp to Illiberis, came without reluctance to the Carthaginian, being won by his presents, they suffered his army to pass through their territories, by the town of Ruscino, without any molestation.
"Have I done right, reverend sir?" asked Clelia Alba of the Vicar of Ruscino.
It was as old as Ruscino, a dull, dark, very ancient place with monasteries and convents like huge fortresses and old palaces still fortified and grim as death amongst them.
So they protected him now, and oftentimes for more than a year he came out of the macchia, and the villagers gave him all they could, and he went up and down Ruscino as if he were a king; and this lasted for several seasons, and, as we learned afterwards, Don Silverio Frascara had cognisance of this fact, but did nothing. Then the judge struck his fist with anger on his desk.
He was a native of the city, and a person of considerable acumen and excellent memory; he never needed to make memoranda there is nothing so dangerous to an official as written notes. "Sarelli, what are the reports concerning the vicar of Ruscino?" Sarelli stood respectfully at attention; he had been a non-commissioned officer of artillery; and answered in rapid but clear tones
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