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The affair was not indeed very complicated though it involved a deed of sale, the transfer of a mortgage and a deed of partnership between Orsino Saracinesca and Andrea Contini, architect, under the style "Andrea Contini and Company," besides a contract between this firm of the one party and the bank in which Del Ferice was a director, of the other, the partners agreeing to continue the building of the half-finished house, and the bank binding itself to advance small sums up to a certain amount for current expenses of material and workmen's wages.
The place, too, was associated in history with so many events, the two men, Leone and Giovanni Saracinesca, stood there beside her, where their ancestors of the same names had stood nearly a thousand years before, their strong dark faces having the same characteristics that for centuries had marked their race, features familiar to Romans by countless statues and pictures, as the stones of Rome themselves but for a detail of dress, it seemed to Corona as though she had been suddenly transported back to the thirteenth century.
You would be conferring a favour instead of accepting one. Consider my position, when I have taken your place. It will not be a pleasant one. The world will abuse me roundly, and will say I have behaved abominably towards you. Do you fancy that I shall be received as a substitute for the Prince Saracinesca your friends have known so long?
I have been admiring it for a quarter of an hour." He loved all objects of the kind, and understood them with rare knowledge. "It is indeed exceedingly beautiful," answered Saracinesca, who longed to take advantage of the opportunity of speaking to Cardinal Antonelli upon the subject nearest to his heart. "Yes yes," returned the Cardinal rather vaguely, and made as though he would go on.
'The Mother Superior thinks that you should not see him, he said. 'I know. She told me so. 'I do not agree with her, said Monsignor Saracinesca slowly. The nun turned her face from the afternoon light, but said nothing; with the greatest sacrifice of her life before her she should not feel joy rising like the dawn in her eyes, at the mere thought of seeing the man whose love she must renounce.
She was not ashamed of it, and yet the words were so new, so strange in their sound, and so strong in their meaning, that she blushed as she uttered them. Saracinesca was greatly surprised, too, for he had expected some evasive turn, some hint that he might bring Giovanni. But his delight had no bounds.
Old Saracinesca stared from one to the other. "What is this comedy?" he asked of Corona. But she nodded to him to be silent. "Then you doubtless remember Felice Baldi poor Felice Baldi," continued Donna Tullia, still gazing scornfully up at Giovanni from where she sat. "I never heard the name, that I can remember," answered Giovanni, as though trying to recall some memory of the past.
The prelate and the Mother met as usual in the cloistered garden, and when Convent affairs had been disposed of, they continued their walk in silence for a few moments. 'I want your unprejudiced opinion about the future of one of the Sisters, said the Mother Superior at last, in her usual tone. 'I will try to give it, answered Monsignor Saracinesca.
He began a negotiation for again obtaining possession of the Roman title at least so the family tradition goes but his brother, who was firmly established in Rome, refused to listen to his demands. At this juncture the old man died, being legally, observe, still the head of the family of Saracinesca; his son should have succeeded him.
All night he lay planning what he should do, how he might reach his place in the mountains by a circuitous route, leaving the general impression that he was abroad and how, when at last he had got to Saracinesca unobserved, he would revel in the solitude and in the thought of being within half a day's journey of Corona d'Astrardente.
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