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Updated: May 31, 2025
So dead fell her broken hope that her face was repellent with the effort she made to support herself. He said, 'I address the Signorina Vittoria. I am a relative of Countess Ammiani. My name is Angelo Guidascarpi. Last night I was evading the sbirri in this disguise by the private door of La Scala, from which I expected Carlo to come forth. I saw him seized in mistake for me.
Why then followed a whole legion of sbirri and police- officers, and who should be at their head but the Florentine stranger. All. Flodoardo? What, Flodoardo? Contarino. Flodoardo. Falieri. What demon could have guided him thither? Parozzi. Hell and furies! Oh, that I had been there. Memmo. There, now, Parozzi, you see at least that Flodoardo is no coward. Falieri. Hush, let us hear the rest.
Hearing these words, the sbirri felt ashamed of their irresolution, and, indicating by signs that they would fulfil their compact, they entered the room, accompanied by the two women. As they had said, a ray of moonlight shone through the open window, and brought into prominence the tranquil face of the old man, the sight of whose white hair had so affected them. This time they showed no mercy.
I know all about that! I mean his relation to Madame Desvarennes." "Zounds! If we were in Venice in the days of the Aqua-Toffana, the sbirri and the bravi " "What rubbish!" interrupted Cayrol, shrugging his shoulders. "Let me continue," said the secretary, "and you can shrug your shoulders afterward if you like.
'Angelo Guidascarpi is in Milan, she said. 'He has killed one of the Lenkensteins, sword to sword. He came to me an hour after you left; the sbirri were on his track; he passed for my son. He is now under the charge of Barto Rizzo, disguised; probably in this house. His brother is in the city.
"It is not violence that I fear, my son, it is treachery." "My life, like every man's, belongs to God, and the lowest of sbirri may take it as I turn the corner of the street; but a king owes something to his people."
All stories agree, that the provocation to the police was given in the Piazza Colonna; and the disturbance, if any, was so trivial, that a friend of mine, who was on the spot at the time, perceived nothing of it, and only fancies he heard a murmur as the police rode by. The sbirri drew their swords, and slashing right and left, charged the dense crowds of men, women and children.
He is a man "instant in season and out of season," as a good shepherd ought to be: he watches while others sleep; for it is at night that his sbirri are most active, running about in the darkness, and carrying tenderly to a safe fold those lambs which are in danger of being devoured by the Mazzinian wolves, or ensnared by Bible heretics.
"There will be delays, perforce, at Cagli," he reminded her, "and, meanwhile, there are these to guide the Borgia sbirri." And he pointed to the tracks we were leaving in the snow. She turned from him, and addressed herself to the other three. "You will stand by me, my friends," she cried. "Giacopo, here, is a coward; but you are better men."
I have described the higher machinery which the Pope employs, the tribunals, judges, the secret process, the tyrannous Gregorian Code; let me next bring into view the inferior machinery of the Pontifical Government. The Roman sbirri have an European reputation. One must be no ordinary villain, he must be, in short, a perfected and finished scoundrel, to merit a place in this honourable corps.
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