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Updated: June 9, 2025
It was but for a moment; our vetturino authoritatively ordered him to pass on, which he did with a 'buona sera, and we never parted with a companion more gladly. From all the circumstances attending it we were inclined to believe that he had some design upon us, but, finding us so numerous, thought it best not to run the risk."
He said that he saw a shop there, as he was coming home, which had a great display of whips at the window, and he wanted to buy a whip, so that when they set out on their journey he could have a whip of his own. "The vetturino never will let me have his whip," said he. "The lash is so long that he says I shall get it entangled in the harness.
He saw the vetturino, and arranged his departure for the morrow. On that evening, he took Carl's arm, and sauntered through the village church-yard. Already seemed it, that the sods had taken root over George's grave.
"You would improvise," Olive was beginning, when Carmela sprang up and ran to the window again. "It is Orazio!" she cried. "He has come in a cab." The vetturino had pulled his horse up with a jerk of the reins after the manner of his kind; the wretched animal had slipped and he was now beating it about the head with the butt end of his whip. His fare had got out and was looking on calmly.
"You see I'm a return, and I will take you about as cheap as you can go in a small carriage." "For how much?" asked Rollo. "Why, my price is three napoleons a day," said the vetturino, "for a full party; but as you are only two, I will take you for less. Have you got a great deal of baggage?" "No; very little," said Rollo.
We took some coffee and departed, and not a word passed between us till we got to the inn at La Scala, where we got down. The road from La Scala to Radicofani is steep and troublesome. The vetturino would require an extra horse, and even then would have taken four hours. I decided, therefore, to take two post horses, and not to begin the journey till ten o'clock.
"Ah! I dare say you kept him up to the traces," her husband remarked, languidly. "You have a talent that way. What 'passages, as Varney called them, there must have been, eh! Guy? We won't hear your confession now, Puss. That ferocious vetturino will have us up at unholy hours, and is not to be mitigated."
As Medini was endeavouring to staunch the blood in a basin of water, the vetturino told him that as I refused to be his surety he must go to prison. I was moved by the scene that I had witnessed, and said to the vetturino, "Give him a fortnight's respite, and if he escapes before the expiration of that term I will pay you." He thought it over for a few moments, and then said,
I wondered no longer when the vetturino told me that he had served them for the last six weeks, having conducted the count and the three women from Rome to Leghorn, and from Leghorn to Pisa, and from Pisa to Florence, paying for their board all the way.
The return of the Hawthornes to Rome through Tuscany was even more interesting than their journey to Florence in the spring, and they enjoyed the inestimable advantage of a vetturino who would seem to have been the Sir Philip Sidney of his profession, a compendium of human excellences.
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