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When such powerful princes became interested, Leo was startled. He summoned Luther to Rome, to be tried by Prierias. Luther, not daring to refuse, and not willing to obey, wrote to his friend Spalatin to use his influence with the elector to have his cause tried in Germany; and the pope, willing to please Frederic, appointed De Vio, his legate, to investigate the matter.
Hawley turned with a winning look to the fair girl. "Say yes do, Vio," pleaded Nellie; and then turning to Mrs. Mencke, she added: "You will let her, won't you?" "I have half a mind to," mused the crafty woman. "There, Vio," cried Nellie, triumphantly; "there is nothing to hinder now." "It is very sudden I will think of it and let you know," Violet began, reflectively.
Do you wish me to call him back?" her sister inquired, regarding her curiously. "No," but there was a perplexed look upon her fair face. "He tells me that you are going to make him happy, Vio," pursued her sister, anxious to learn just how matters stood, "that you will marry him. I am delighted, dear, and I know that he will do all in his power to make your life a perfect one."
The principal antagonist of the montes pietatis was Thomas da Vio, who wrote a special treatise on the subject, in which he made the point that the montes charged interest from the very beginning of the loan, which was a contradiction of all the previous teaching on interest. The general feeling of the Church, however, was in favour of the montes.
"I never stir out, but as they say the Devil does, with chains and torments," Leonora tells Violante. "She that is my Hell at home is so abroad." "Vio. A New Woman? "LEO. No, an old Woman, or rather an old Devil; nay, worse than an old Devil, an old Maid. "Vio. Oh, there's no Fiend so Envious.
Thus, for several years, Mesembrius Vio, the oldest Senator who since the death of Probus had not set foot in Rome nor given the Senate a glimpse of him had resided on his estate at the mouth of the Tiber.
"'Yes, I'll go, and I pulled my umbrella into shape, opened it with a flop, and stepped from the shelter of the doorway into the pelt of the driving rain. "We kept on up the Fondamenta, crossed the bridge by the side of the Canal of San Vio as far as the Caffe Calcina, and then out on the Zattero, which was being soused with the waves of the Giudecca breaking over the coping of its pavement.
We found the canal crowded with poor people of the quarter men, women, and children lining the walls along its side, and clustering like bees upon the bridges. The water itself was almost choked with gondolas. Evidently the folk of San Vio thought our wedding procession would be a most exciting pageant.
Mencke's delight, she was accompanied by Nellie Bailey. "Oh, Vio!" exclaimed that elated young lady, after the first greetings were exchanged, "I have the most delightful piece of news to tell you." Violet looked interested immediately. "What is it?" she asked. "I am going to Europe next month," Nellie replied, with a face all aglow. "Going to Europe!"
The felze was arranged for three, the little box-seats taken out, and the chair in place of them; Geof took the chair. And Vittorio rowed them swiftly with the tide, up the Canal, past the tiny striped church of San Vio, to which the pious little princess crosses, in the pretty legend, and on, to the stern and massive Palazzo Rezzonico.
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