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The playing of the great Savelli at the concert was still a matter of comment in Oakdale. There were several persons in the audience who had previously heard him play, and had at once recognized him. More remarkable still was the fact of his being the father of Eleanor Savelli, and all sorts of rumors sprang up regarding his advent in Oakdale, and his affairs in general.
"For the past year I have been wanting Mr. Savelli to ask me to marry him, and he obstinately refuses to do so. Will you tell me, sir, what a poor woman is to do?" She addressed herself exclusively to the young Prince; but her voice, with its adorable French intonation, rang high and clear.
"Really, Miss Savelli, we haven't the remotest idea of what you are speaking." "You know perfectly well of what I am speaking," retorted Eleanor. "I might have expected as much, however." "I repeat," said Nora firmly, "that we do not know what you mean, and I am not used to having my word questioned. You will have to explain yourself if you expect to get a definite reply."
She wore diamonds in her hair and a broad diamond clasp to the black velvet round her throat. "Miss Winwood has been telling me what an awful time you've had, Mr. Savelli," she said pleasantly. "Now, whenever I hear of people having had pneumonia I always want to talk to them and sympathize with them." "That's very kind of you, Lady Chudley," said Paul. "Only a fellow-feeling.
She suggested the jewel song in "Faust," or the waltz in "Romeo and Juliet." But he was of the opinion that she had better sing the music she was in the habit of singing; for choice, one of Purcell's songs, the "Epithalamium," or the song from the "Indian Queen." "Savelli doesn't know the music; it will interest her. The other things she hears every day of her life."
Far in their massive palaces the Savelli and Orsini heard the echo of the shouts that answered the question of Pandulfo. "Are ye, then, without hope!" resumed the scholar, as the shout ceased, and hushing, with the first sound of his voice, the ejaculations and speeches which each man had turned to utter to his neighbour. "Are ye without hope?
It is but a child's effort; or did the sentry spy him?" Time passed on: the first ray of daylight slowly gleamed, when he thought he heard the door of the church close. Savelli's suspense became intolerable: he stole from the chapel, and came in sight of the Tribune's bed all was silent. "Perhaps the silence of death," said Savelli, as he crept back.
Even Vannozza he names but once, and then incorrectly. There are two passages in particular in his diary which have given the greatest offense: the report of the bacchanal of fifty harlots in the Vatican, and the attack made on the Borgias in the anonymous letter to Silvio Savelli. These passages are found in all the manuscripts and doubtless also in the original of the diary.
But the ecclesiastical State was and remained a thorough anomaly among the powers of Italy; in and near Rome itself, the Papacy was defied by the great families of the Colonna, Orsini, Savelli and Anguillara; in Umbria, in the Marches, and in Romagna, those civic republics had almost ceased to exist, for whose devotion the Papacy had shown so little gratitude; their place had been taken by a crowd of princely dynasties, great or small, whose loyalty and obedience signified little.
In the affair Cesare had a narrow escape from a stone-shot fired from the castle, whilst one of his officers Onorio Savelli was killed by a cannon-ball from the duke's own guns, whose men, unaware of what was taking place, were continuing the bombardment. Hitherto the army had been forced to endure foul weather rain, fogs, and wind; but there was worse come.
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