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His heart was pure and at peace, but he could not forget that the young foreign girl's sweet voice, and the tone of sadness in which she had said "You will not come to Subiaco?" had awakened strange echoes within him, and that in that one second the thought had flashed across his mind: "Had Jeanne been like this, I should not have left her!"
A stranger? Old. From Subiaco. And no one else? Yes, Benedetto. Benedetto? Who was Benedetto? A young man from the Padre foresterario's native town. And what was the Padre foresterario's native town? Brescia. And this young man was called Benedetto? Every one called him Benedetto, but Fra Antonio could not say if that was his real name. But what sort of man was he? Ah! that Fra Antonio could say.
It proved a lucky thing for Roderiga that he had assumed this pious attitude, for his protector died after a reign of three years three months and nineteen days, and he was now sustained by his own merit alone against the numerous enemies he had made by his rapid rise to fortune: so during the whole of the reign of Pius II he lived always apart from public affairs, and only reappeared in the days of Sixtus IV, who made him the gift of the abbacy of Subiaco, and sent him in the capacity of ambassador to the kings of Aragon and Portugal.
After the first moment of numbness he recognised the arch on the right, where the road begins which leads down to Santa Scolastica, to Subiaco, to Rome; and on the left the path which rises toward the Sacro Speco.
And there were hams and sides of bacon, and red peppers, and bundles of dried herbs, and great mountain cheeses on shelves. There was also a guest room, better than the rest, which Stefanone and his wife occasionally let to respectable travellers or to the merchants who came from Rome on business to stay a few days in Subiaco.
And then pray, pray, sing, sing! It needs a chest! Poor lungs! I will go to my home and get ready blisters mustard a lancet they will not allow a barber in the convent to bleed them. Well I make myself the barber! What a life, what a life! If you wish to die young, be a doctor at Subiaco, Sor Angoscia. Good night, dear friend. Good night, Stefanone.
She would have liked to visit the garden before the convent, the urchin from Subiaco having told her that the monks of Santa Scolastica had a fine kitchen-garden, and that some people belonging to them worked in it an old man from Subiaco and a young stranger. Now, it was out of the question.
Before entering his cell Don Clemente stopped to look at the distant lights of Subiaco; he thought of the little red villa, nearer but not discernible; he thought of the woman. Intrigues, the Abbot had said. Did she still love Piero Maironi? Had she discovered, did she know that he had sought refuge at Santa Scolastica? Had she recognised him? If so, what did she propose to do?
He never went to Subiaco. He gave Gloria teachers, the best that could be found, and there were good instructors in those days when people were willing to take time in learning. In music she had her mother's voice and talent.
On the contrary, he was a man of very unusual gifts, of superior education, and of rare enterprise; a strong, silent, thoughtful man, about eight-and-twenty years of age, and just beginning to feel his power as something greater than he had suspected, when he came to spend the autumn months in Subiaco, and hired Sora Nanna's guest room, with a little room leading off it, which he kept locked, and in which he had a table, a chair, a microscope, some books, a few chemicals and some simple apparatus.
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