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Updated: May 10, 2025
"Well, the Viscount learned from Annunziata that she dwelt in the country beyond the Trastavere and that evening set out to find her. Your son, who knew his object, followed him to protect him against the bandits. Massetti was halted by one of Vampa's men, who wounded him in the struggle that ensued, your son appearing in time to kill the brigand and rescue his friend.
The Count of Monte-Cristo was in Rome. He had hired one of the numerous private palaces, the Palazzo Costi, situated on a broad thoroughfare near the point where the Ponte St. Angelo connects Rome proper with that transtiberine suburb known as the Leonine City or Trastavere.
I saw him a very short time ago in Rome and afterwards with Luigi Vampa and Pasquale Solara in the marshy country beyond the Trastavere." "What brought you and your companion to Paris?" "We had a disagreement with old Solara, whom Luigi Vampa insisted we should obey implicitly.
Your fears are childish!" "I am not so sure of that. The country beyond the Trastavere is infested by daring robbers, who would not hesitate to seize you and hold you for a ransom. Only the other day the notorious Luigi Vampa performed just such an exploit, exacting a very large sum for the release of his prisoner, who was a wealthy nobleman like yourself." "I will take the chances!"
One of the city journals had published the statement that a young and very handsome peasant girl, living with her father in the country beyond the Trastavere, had recently been abducted, report said, by a youthful member of the Roman aristocracy; that the reckless scion of nobility had courted and won her in the guise of a peasant, had carried her off to a bandit fastness and there had eventually deserted her.
To what unknown, what deadly perils was he exposing himself amid the marshes without the city walls? But perhaps he had not yet left the city walls behind him! A ray of hope came to Espérance. If Massetti were still within the limits of the Trastavere, he might by using due speed overtake him! He would make the attempt at any rate.
The pursued had not discovered the pursuit; he trudged along steadily and sturdily, never once looking back. Thus the two men crossed the Trastavere, and each in turn, emerging from a gate in the wall of the Leonine City, passed out into the marshy country beyond.
As he turned to depart, he said: "Is your determination still unaltered, do you yet intend to seek Annunziata Solara in the country beyond the Trastavere?" Giovanni glanced at him keenly, as he replied, somewhat impatiently: "My determination is unaltered. I shall seek her!" "To-night?" "To-night!" Espérance said nothing further, but departed, full of sad forebodings.
"In the country, just beyond the Trastavere." "Do you live alone?" "No; with my father, Pasquale Solara." "What is his occupation?" "He is a shepherd, signor." The girl bowed to the two young men and, with a glance at Giovanni that set his blood tingling in his veins, passed on and was speedily lost in the throng of promenaders.
"When do you design seeking her out?" "This very night." "In the Trastavere?" "No. You did not hear her aright. She said she lived in the country, just beyond the Trastavere. I will seek her there." "What! Alone?" "Alone." "Beware, Giovanni! Her bright eyes may lead you into danger! How do you know that she has not some fierce brigand lover, who will meet you with a stiletto?" "Nonsense!
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