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Updated: September 22, 2025
It is humiliating!" "Well, it is better than not to be set right at all," said Lucia. "You see, if you had strangled poor papa, it would have been dreadful! Oh, Tista, promise me that you will not do anything violent! Of course he is very unkind, I know. But it would be terrible if you were to be angry and hurt him. You will not, Tista? Tell me you will not?"
"Be at ease, dear 'Lora," he murmured, "I will bring you good news. But the hour is early yet, and if I start so soon, your sister may not be able to receive me. So I'll go back and take my cup of coffee at home before I set out." He was rising, but she laid her hand on his arm gently. "Dear friend, why should you leave us? 'Tista is getting my breakfast ready now, let him get yours also."
He is cruel, he plots over his work, and then, when all seems calm, the storm breaks. It will not end well." "We must love each other, Tista. Then all will end well. Who can divide us?" "No one," answered the young maid firmly. "But many things may happen before we are united for ever." He was not subject to presentiments, and his self-confident nature abhorred the prospect of trouble.
I wish you could have seen the look in his eyes!" "No, no, my boy he was angry. He did not mean it." "Mean it! Bacchus! He would kill you himself if he were not such a dastardly coward!" Don Paolo shook his head with an incredulous smile, and looked kindly into the young man's eyes. "You have all lost your heads over this unfortunate affair, Tista.
Good-bye, Tista." He pressed the young man's hand warmly, as though to thank him for his courageous defence, and then left the workshop. Marzio paid no attention to his departure. When the door was closed, and as Gianbattista was returning to his bench, the artist dropped his modelling tools and faced his apprentice. "You may go too," he said in a low tone, as though he were choking.
'Tista has told me how kind you were to Andrea's little sister when she sprained her foot last month; and how you bandaged it for her, and used to go and read to her all the morning, when her father and Andrea were out selling fruit, and she would have been left alone but for you; and I know, too, all about poor crippled Antonia and Catterina Pic . Don't go away, I won't say any more about it!
For Paolo's sake you shall have your own way." Half an hour later the surgeon made his visit and assured them all that there was no serious injury, nor any further danger to be feared. The patient had been very badly stunned, that was all. Marzio remained by his brother's side. "You see, Tista," said Lucia when they were in the sitting-room, "I was quite right about the crucifix and the rest."
She shrouded her face in her hands, but not to weep, for when, after a little silence, she raised her large dark eyes again to meet the old German's compassionate gaze, I saw that they were calm and tearless. "After that, I used to leave little 'Tista in the care of a woman, next door to me, while I went out as a model.
It is your expression of them that makes me laugh now and then; I think you go too far sometimes!" "As if any one had ever gone far enough" exclaimed Marzio, somewhat pacified, for his moods were very quick. "Since there are still men who are richer than others, it is a sign that we have not gone to the end to the great end in which we believe. I am sure you believe in it too, Tista, don't you?"
The words stuck in his throat. "If he lives I will be a son to him!" he added presently. "I will never leave him. But perhaps perhaps he is too good to live, Lucia!" "He must not die. I will take care of him," answered Lucia. "You must pray for him, Tista, and I will we all will!" "Eh! I will try, but I don't understand that kind of thing as well as you," said Gianbattista dolefully.
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