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Updated: June 12, 2025
There were Luccans, he said, to be hired at Bastia, hard-working men and skilled vine-dressers, but they would not come to a commune where such active hostility existed, and to induce them to do so would inevitably lead to bloodshed. The Abbe Susini had called, and told a similar tale in more guarded language.
Denise replaced the two letters in her pocket and walked on. A carriage passed her, and she received a curt bow and salutation from the Abbe Susini who was in it. The carriage turned to the right at the crossroads, and rattled down the hill in the direction of Vasselot. Denise's head went an inch higher at the sight of it.
I should have liked to have offered you my poor assistance; but I cannot I must go. There are others, however. There is Mademoiselle Brun, with a man's heart in that little body. And there is the Abbe Susini. Yes; you can trust him as you can trust a little English fighting terrier. Tell him No; I will tell him. He is a Vasselot, mademoiselle, but I shall make him a Perucca."
French and Italian were alike incomprehensible to this lady, and de Vasselot was still explaining with much volubility, and a wealth of gesture, that the man he sought wore a tonsure, when Clement himself, affable and supremely indifferent to the scantiness of his own attire, appeared. "Take the gentleman to number eleven," he commanded; "the Abbe Susini expects him."
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