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Updated: May 29, 2025
Meanwhile, from mouth to mouth, among the villagers, who gathered round the scene, passed the whispered murmur: "Sartello, the bandit chief, and his followers!" The person thus indicated turned to the shrinking crowd, and lifting the mask from his face, he addressed them thus: "Good friends, our play is finished.
I bring, through intercession of the pope, a pardon from our king. And thou and thine, if henceforth ye are pleased to remain at peace, will be accepted by the law which now holds your lives forfeit." Sartello grasped with a vice-like pressure the hand which the youth held out.
I have gained some honor, whatever its worth may be. And now, how fares the gentle maid whom I so long to see?" "Ah," replied Sartello, shaking his head sadly, "these women are indeed a puzzle. I fear much that Rosa's mind has changed since your departure. Absence, as the poets say, is love's worst bane. But let her go, Gulielmo; fairer charms than hers will soon ease your pain."
A single tear fell from Gulielmo, notwithstanding the proud compressure of his lips. "Let it be so," said he. "I will make no words about it. Neither will I shun her sight. I will face it out, and shame them who think to flout me thus." "Bravo, my lad!" exclaimed Sartello. "I find that you are of the true stuff. So come along; the hour is already near, when she is to change her name.
I feared at first to tell you the tale, but am glad to learn that my fears were needless." Gulielmo's burning cheek might have sown the pain which raged within his breast: but, nevertheless, he accompanied Sartello with a firm and confident stop till they reached the inn where the guests had already begun to assemble.
"He is with you," said Sartello, leaving the scraggy laurel behind which he had concealed himself. "What cheer brings thou from Rome, my gallant lad'? Certes, thy look is loftier and manlier now, whatever fortune thou hast had." "Kind friend," replied the youth, "I may say that I have had both good and ill fortune; though mostly good, if thou dost agree with my opinion.
It seems to me that after all I should make the readiest groom of the two." "Not so!" exclaimed Gulielmo. "But I must not allow you to be deceived, however little my tale may profit me." "Hold then a moment," Sartello cried. "Your hand, friend Jean; I think you bear no ill-will. Or if you do, the settlement we'll postpone, till this present affair shall be concluded.
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