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"Where is the father of the lad you so brutally and wantonly slew yesternight? Seek him throughout Cesena, and when you find him not, perhaps you will realise that one who had seen his own son suffer such an outrageous and cruel death at your brigand's hands would be a willing and ready instrument in an act that should avenge him." Vergine santa! What a consternation was his.
"Oh no; quite true. The matter is the sale of the land known under the title of the Terra Vergine." "Thank Heaven I am here, and not Adone," thought Don Silverio. Aloud he answered, "What sale? The proprietor has heard of none." "He must have heard. It can be no news to you that the works about to be made upon the river Edera will necessitate the purchase of the land known as the Terra Vergine."
There could scarce have been so much of the open mouth since the dingy waits, on Christmas Eve, had so lamentably chanted for pennies the time when Amerigo, insatiable for English customs, had come out, with a gasped "Santissima Vergine!" to marvel at the depositaries of this tradition and purchase a reprieve.
No one had told her what the evil was which hung over the Terra Vergine; and she never asked questions. The two elder women never took her into their confidence on any subject, and she had no communication with the few people in Ruscino.
I was born here. What is your errand?" "You must be Adone Alba?" said the person, as if spokesman for the others. "I am." "And you own the land known as the Terra Vergine?" "I do." "You will hear from us in due time, then. Meantime" "Meantime you trespass on my ground. Leave it, sirs." The four strangers drew a few paces, and conferred together in a low tone, consulting a sheaf of papers.
"I saw them all the time Dama Margherita was reciting Holy Mother, but it was long! I thought the King was coming, and it was I that should carry the news to her Majesty I came near crying out! But I could not see his orange plume, and I waited. They came slowly Santissima Vergine! He was not there!" He clutched his comrade's doublet with a trembling hand and turned an ashen face towards him.
"What would be the selling price of the Terra Vergine?" he said abruptly. "It is valued at twelve thousand francs." "It is useless to discuss its price," replied Don Silverio, "and the question is much wider than the limits of the Terra Vergine. In one word, is the whole of the Valdedera to be ruined because a Minister has a relation who desires to create an unnecessary railway?"
She lived for the sake of her son, but she and joy had parted company for ever. His death had made her sole ruler of the Terra Vergine; she had both the knowledge and the strength necessary for culture of the land, and she taught her boy to value and respect the soil. "As you treat the ground ill or well, so will your ground treat you," she said to him.
The rights of the Lords of Ruscino might be but shadows of far-off things, things of tradition, of history, of romance, but the rights of the peasant proprietors of the Terra Vergine must, he thought, be respected if there were any justice upon earth, for they were plainly writ down in the municipal registers of San Beda.
I had thought of everything as far as possible, and I could already foresee what a happy, peaceful home there would be in the little mountain town guarded by the Monte Vergine.
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