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Huddlestone staggered, uttered a weird and freezing cry, threw up his arms over his head, and fell backward on the turf. "TRADITORE! TRADITORE!" cried the invisible avengers. And just then, a part of the roof of the pavilion fell in, so rapid was the progress of the fire. A loud, vague, and horrible noise accompanied the collapse, and a vast volume of flame went soaring up to heaven.
He clasped his hands together in sudden distress. "I forgot, I forgot," he repeated disconsolately. "Cesar stole the belt?" I stammered out, bewildered. "And who else? Canallia! He must have been spying on you for days. And he did the whole thing. Absent all day in Barcelona. Traditore! Sold his jacket to hire a horse. Ha! ha! A good affair! I tell you it was he who set him at us. . . ."
His house was cut in twain from roof to pavement, and a narrow lane was driven through it, which received the title of Traitor's Alley, Chiasso del Traditore. The price of four thousand golden florins was put upon his head, together with the further sum of one hundred florins per annum in perpetuity to be paid to the murderer and his direct heirs in succession, by the Otto di Balia.
It was the spirit of that ancient civilization which did not consist primarily of industrial development that stirred in the souls of true Italians and made them scorn the advice of the Teutonized politician. He was "traditore" to all that nobler Italians hold dear to the Latin tradition. The Poet Speaks
On they came their passions excited by their numbers women and men, children and malignant age in all the awful array of aroused, released, unresisted physical strength and brutal wrath; "Death to the traitor death to the tyrant death to him who has taxed the people!" "Mora l' traditore che ha fatta la gabella! Mora!" Such was the cry of the people such the crime of the Senator!
After a moment one tore herself away, but the other remained and began to ask questions. Presently she turned and walked slowly away in the direction from which she had come. "I get her," exclaimed Gemma, triumphantly. "What did you say?" asked Janet. "Listen that she take the bread from our mouths, she is traditore scab. We strike for them, too, is it not so?"
Huddlestone staggered, uttered a weird and freezing cry, threw up his arms over his head, and fell backward on the turf. "Traditore! Traditore!" cried the invisible avengers. And just then a part of the roof of the pavilion fell in, so rapid was the progress of the fire. A loud, vague, and horrible noise accompanied the collapse, and a vast volume of flame went soaring up to heaven.
'Fuori, traditore! cried Napoleon at last, forgetting in the excess of his wrath that he had to sustain his role as a Frenchman to the end; and Bernadotte promptly flew under the sofa, but quickly darted out again with a joyful bark, as though to announce that the performance was over. All the spectators laughed, and Sanin more than all.
The same sound was repeated twice at regular intervals; and then a formidable voice shouted through the shutters the Italian word "Traditore!" Mr. Huddlestone threw his head in the air; his eyelids quivered; next moment he fell insensible below the table. Northmour and I had each run to the armoury and seized a gun. Clara was on her feet with her hand at her throat.
Huddlestone staggered, uttered a weird and freezing cry, threw up his arms over his head, and fell backward on the turf. "Traditore! Traditore!" cried the invisible avengers. And just then a part of the roof of the pavilion fell in, so rapid was the progress of the fire. A loud, vague, and horrible noise accompanied the collapse, and a vast volume of flame went soaring up to heaven.
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