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Updated: June 16, 2025
Bruno's thoughts were constantly occupied by the thought that his new, charming friend stood entirely alone in the world. As Salo had no one who could help him to find a home, Bruno hoped that his mother would be able to give him some advice. He felt sure that she would gladly do this, for she loved both children tenderly, as she had formerly loved their parents.
Salo had repeatedly shown his feeling by sudden exclamations and he said now with comforting sympathy, "I am sure it must make you feel like running away if you are obliged to spend all your days with two such boys. But don't listen to them, pay no attention to them, and let them do and say what they please. If they want to be mean, let them be, for they can't make you different."
So Mäzli looked out at them, and as soon as they were near enough, studied Salo very carefully. He must have pleased her, for she quickly ran towards him and, reaching out her hand, said, "Won't you stay with us for a while?" Salo laughed: "Yes, I should love to." Taking him by the hand, Mäzli led him into the house and to the room where the inviting table was already set.
The great obstacle of Salo's studies would not be put aside in that way, either, for he could not join you there for years." "Oh, I was thinking all the time how lovely it would be to live with Apollonie! It would be so wonderful I could live with her there and Salo could come to us in the holidays till he is through with his studies. Then we could both settle here in the neighborhood."
The brothers had now reached them, and Mea soon followed with the uncle, whose face showed signs of perturbation. "I hope you have not run up to the castle with Salo, Bruno," he cried out with agitation. "Oh, no, uncle," Bruno replied, "we sat down here on the way up. I just wanted to show Salo the castle that belonged to his uncle, but he does not know anything about it.
Still, the position was one of great perplexity: for though Masséna's division from the Adige was now beginning to come into touch with Bonaparte's chief force, yet the fronts of Würmser's columns were menacing the French from that side, while the troops of Quosdanovich, hovering about Lonato and Salo, struggled desperately to stretch a guiding hand to their comrades on the Mincio.
"Yes, yes, it is a feast-day," the uncle assented; "the little ones can stay up a little longer. Let us all keep on playing." Mäzli joyfully skipped back to her place, and the merriment was resumed. The game, which was very amusing, was made more so by Uncle Philip's funny remarks. Nobody had noticed therefore how quiet Mäzli had grown. Salo suddenly remarked, "Oh, look! Mäzli is sound asleep.
Everything he had ordered for the meal tasted so delightfully that it seemed like a feast to them and Salo said, "I should never have been able to conceive such a wonderful end of my holidays, if I had imagined the most marvellous thing in the world." "If Salo could only stay here a few days, if only one day more," Bruno urged.
He had stopped walking and was looking across the flowering meadows towards the castle over which rosy clouds were floating on the bright evening sky. "No, not for that reason," said Bruno, "but because it belongs to an uncle of yours." Salo looked at him, full of astonishment. "But Bruno, what an idea!" he called out laughing. "That would not be so bad, but it can't be true.
On the previous day other Austrian detachments had also, after obstinate conflicts, been worsted near Salo and Lonato.
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