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So little curiosity did he have in the matter, that he did not follow on the track of the fugitive, nor even go to the window to look out; but, walking up to the sideboard, he opened it to take the water-pitcher and get a drink. As he did so, he started. There stood the basket of fruit which Saveria had filled so carefully with fruit for his uncle the canon.
You ask for my protection. I am certain of your guilt. But I open a door of escape. It is the door to pardon; it is confession. Profit by it. See, again," here the canon took out his watch, "it is now five minutes before seven. If, when the clock strikes seven, you have not confessed, Saveria shall give you a whipping. Am I right, brother Charles?" "You are right, Canon," replied Papa Charles.
Saveria was a long time away, and when she at last reappeared, carrying a letter, and followed by little Chilina, rubbing her eyes, and evidently just waked out of her beauty sleep, Orso was wound up to the highest possible pitch of impatience. "Chili," said Orso, "what are you doing here at this hour?" "The signorina sent for me," replied Chilina.
Mamma Letitia was there, tearful, but smiling, with Eliza, and Pauline, and Baby Lucien; so were Uncle Lucien the canon, and Aunt Manuccia, who had been their mother's housekeeper, with Nurse Saveria, and Nurse Ilaria, whom Napoleon called foster-mother, and even little Panoria, to whom Napoleon cried "Good-by, Giacommeta mia! I'll come back some day."
Shall I take it up to your room?" "You take it up! Why, you'd never be strong enough even to lift it! . . . Is there no man about who can do it?" "I'm not so weak as you think!" said Colomba, turning up her sleeves, and displaying a pair of round white arms, perfect in shape, but looking more than ordinarily strong. "Here, Saveria," said she to the servant; "come and help me!"
"What horse will you ride to-morrow, Ors' Anton'?" "The black. Why do you ask?" "So as to make sure he has some barley." When Orso went up to his room, Colomba sent Saveria and the herdsmen to their beds, and sat on alone in the kitchen, where the bruccio was simmering. Now and then she seemed to listen, and was apparently waiting very anxiously for her brother to go to bed.
Then as Saveria, turning, bade them hurry on, Eliza caught Panoria's hand, and ran toward the nurse; but as she did so, she said to Panoria, boastingly and rashly, "Come into our house! If I do not eat some of those very pears out of that very basket of our uncle the canon's, then you may call me a coward, Panoria!" "Would you then dare?" cried Panoria. "I'll not believe it unless I see you."
Did I not tell you I did not touch the fruit?" "Still obstinate!" exclaimed "Papa Charles," turning away from his son. "He does not wish for pardon. He is wicked. Saveria! take this headstrong boy to the kitchen, and lay the whip upon him well, do you hear? He has deserved it." Napoleon fled to the corner, and stood at bay. Uncle Joey Fesch joined him, as if to protect and defend him.
He hurried to the house, took from Saveria the bread she had put aside for him, and was speedily out of the house again. This time he took his way to the grazing-lands, where, upon the slopes of the grand mountains that wall in the town of Ajaccio, the shepherd boys were tending their scattered herds. "Who will exchange chestnut bread for the best town bread in Ajaccio?" he demanded.
"So here you are, in Napoleon's grotto!" exclaimed Saveria the nurse, dropping with her basket on the ground. "Why did you run from me, naughty ones?" Napoleon noted the basket's luscious contents. "Oh, a pear! Give me a pear, Saveria!" he cried, springing toward the nurse, and thrusting a hand into the basket. But Nurse Saveria hastily drew away the basket.
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