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Updated: June 10, 2025
May I now have the pleasure of setting you free? It wounds me in my tenderest part to know how these cords must bruise you. Your aching wounds my aching heart. Come, a fair exchange! Be free, and set me free." A great shadow of him settled down over my eyes, the impending bulk of his huge body; heat and garlic came in waves about me, his furnace breath. "Not yet, Fra Palamone," I said firmly.
"Of detestable treachery in Florence when you set to work to entrap a good girl who had done you no harm in the world and, Fra Palamone, I think I may remind you of the payment of those services of yours IN KIND, in the Piazza of Santa Maria." With clasped hands, streaming eyes, he beamed upon me. "Generous hand! Oh, healing, life-giving blood!"
If you won't agree to this, you must follow your own devices, and may attempt whatever atrocity occurs to you. That is my firm decision which no suffering can relax." Fra Palamone, all smiles, made no difficulties. He would fetch Virginia that very night, and we would set off the next morning for Prato, where there was a great church ceremony which he must by all means attend.
Some time this lasted. Then Palamone gave a bitter laugh like the barking of a leopard in the night. "Say?" he mocked me. "Why, I say that you are an exquisite, adorable fool the very pink of fools. For two ticks I would have taken you at your word. For two ticks." "It was the third that prevented you," says I. "You are not such a villain as you think yourself."
A power of attorney to Fra Palamone by name from Sir John Macartney, his Britannic Majesty's representative at the Grand Ducal Court, authorising him to use all diligence and spare no expense in finding Francis-Antony Strelley of Upcote Esquire, wherever he might be in Italy; and with further authority to secure honour for his drafts upon the banking-house of Peruzzi in Florence to the extent of five hundred pounds sterling.
"You are getting proficient in our tongue," he said, somewhat put out by my exactitude. "Oh, I am proficient in more ways than one," I told him. "You taught me at Prato how to draw teeth, and I showed you, in the same town, how claws could be cut. What did you think of the carcere? Well, now I will show you another accomplishment I have. Draw teeth, cut claws! I can drill holes also, Palamone."
Treachery indeed!" I turned, and saw that he spoke the truth. Fra Palamone, booted and spurred, with a huge black cloak flagging about him, was close upon me, walking his horse tenderly down the hill. His face was distorted with a grin, there was a light, scared look in one of his eyes, whose brow was lifted more than the other. If ever appearance foretold mischief, that did his.
That being all the bargain, we spent the rest of the day as we chose which was not punting against Fra Palamone. He must have made sixty times that amount. Towards evening the Piazza, grew very gay. An opera was given at the theatre, after which the ladies of the place took the air, walking up and down with their gentlemen.
Oh, horrible! I stopped and cocked my pistol. "Ah, false wife once," I said terribly, "and now false mistress! Traitress, with this traitor whom I believed my friend " Belviso here gave a cry and held up his hand. He was looking, not at me, but behind me to the slope down which I had come. "Master, beware, beware," he called out in his ringing young voice. "Palamone is behind you.
"Since you, Palamone," I said, "desire my company, though Heaven alone knows why you do desire it, I will agree to share my journey with you so far as Florence, whither I shall go immediately, but not on any account without Virginia. I have charged my conscience with her honour, and am inflexible on that point.
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