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At this time, Roberto da San Severino, one of the most distinguished generals of this period, was at Florence, and it was therefore determined to send him, with what forces could be collected, to Prato, with orders that he should approach the place, particularly observe what was going on, and provide such remedies as the necessity of the case and his own prudence should suggest.
Who are these men to whom you have sold my father's property?" "There is no reason why you should not be told, except that it signifies little. The Count di San Severino and the Seneschal de Beaucaire are now on their way with the king to Siena." "They may be overtaken and persuaded to give up their purchase," said Romola, eagerly, her anger beginning to be surmounted by anxious thought.
At the close of winter they ordered Roberto da San Severino to leave Lunigiana and march thither, which he did, and with great tumult plundered many fortresses, and overran the country around Pisa. At this time, ambassadors came to Florence from the emperor, the king of France, and the king of Hungary, who were sent by their princes to the pontiff.
I thought that you were talking about me while I was strumming to them at the club. It is possible, of course, that I was quite mistaken; but when you went out I stopped at once and asked questions. And they told me you were a friend of a great friend of mine of Mrs. Minchin!" "It is true enough," said Langholm, after a pause. "Well?" "She was a very great friend of mine," repeated Severino.
But Langholm reckoned without his stricken guest next door; and went up presently, intending to stay five or ten minutes at the most. Severino lay smiling, like a happy and excited child. Langholm was sorry to detect the excitement, but determined to cut his own visit shorter than ever.
Severino could not swallow the champagne which Langholm poured into his mouth. Langholm fetched the candle in high alarm higher yet at what it revealed. Severino was struggling to raise himself, a deadly leaden light upon his face. "Raise me up raise me up." Langholm raised him in his arms. "Another hemorrhage!" said Severino, in a gasping whisper. And his blood dripped with the words.
But you have accepted the first effort of my friendship with generosity and candour, and you will, I doubt not, continue to behold my sincerity with a favourable eye. Shall I venture to say that I am sorry you have commenced so intimate a connexion with the marquis of San Severino?
Yet it was there he spent the night. He had scarcely slept all the week. It was a comfort to think that this vigil was a useful one. Severino slept fitfully, and Langholm had never a long stretch of uninterrupted thought. But before morning he had decided to give Steel a chance. It was a vague decision, dependent on the chance that Steel gave him when they met, as meet they must.
Letter XVI The Marquis of San Severino to the Marchioness of Pescara Cerenzo Madam, I am truly sorry that it falls to my lot to communicate to you the distressing tidings with which it is perfectly necessary you should be acquainted. The marquis, your husband, and my most dear friend, has this morning fallen in a duel at this place.
Langholm was sufficiently startled at the sound of his own name, breaking in upon the reflections indicated, but to find at his elbow the very face which was in his mind was to lose all power of immediate reply. "My name is Severino," explained the other. "I was introduced to you an hour or two ago at the club." "Ah, to be sure!" cried Langholm, recovering.
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