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His teeth were chattering with cold and fear; but as he began to realise his extreme peril, terror lent wings to his heels, and he almost outstripped the nimble Temistoele in the race for safety. They reached at last the ruined part of the city near the Porta Maggiore, and in the shadow of the deep archway where the road branches to the right towards Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, Temistocle halted.
You villain! you thief! you " "No chiacchiere, no talk, padrone," interrupted Temistocle, snapping the lock of the bag. "If you chance to be searched, it would ill become a mendicant friar to be carrying gold watches and pearl studs. I will give them to Donna Tullia this very evening. You have money you can say that you are taking that to your convent."
Here is a scudo, Temistocle. You can make him very drunk for that." Temistocle hesitated, and looked at the money. "Another couple of pauls would make it safer," he remarked. "Well, there they are; but you must make him very drunk indeed. You must find out all he knows, and you must keep sober yourself." "Leave that to me.
Temistocle, I think I will get up this morning and sit in the next room." "And the grey trousers?" "Take them, and wear them in honour of the most generous master living," said Del Ferice, impressively. "It is not every master who gives his servant a pair of grey trousers. Remember that." "Heaven bless you, Signor Conte!" exclaimed Temistocle, devoutly. Del Ferice lost no time.
He would inquire the way from Subiaco. While Del Ferice was thus making his way across the Campagna, Temistocle was taking measures for his own advantage and safety. He had the bag with his master's clothes, the valuable watch and chain, and the pearl studs.
She thought that the sight of the money might produce an impression, and she withdrew a bank-note from the hollow of her hand, spreading it out between her fingers. Temistocle eyed it greedily. "There are twenty-five scudi," she said. "If you will help me to find a piece of paper in your master's room, you shall have them." Temistocle drew himself up with an air of mock pride.
Madame Mayer looked at him. "Impossible, signora," he said. Then she drew out another. Temistocle eyed the glove curiously to see if it contained more. "Signora," he repeated, "it is impossible. My master would kill me. I cannot think of it." But his tone seemed to yield a little. Donna Tullia found another bank-note; there were now seventy-five scudi in her hand.
He had left his affianced bride without a word of warning, had abandoned all his possessions to Temistocle that scoundrelly thief Temistocle! and he was utterly alone.
Hedwig tried hard to take it with indifference, but she acknowledges that her fingers trembled and her heart beat fast. "I was to deliver a message to your excellency from the old gentleman," said Temistocle, coming close to her and bending down. "Ah!" said Hedwig, beginning to break the envelope. "Yes, excellency.
Nino called softly to the man with the mules to wait in the shadow, and Temistocle knocked at the door. The key ground in the lock from within, but the hands that held it seemed weak. Nino's heart beat fast. "Temistocle!" cried Hedwig's trembling voice. "What is the matter, your excellency?" asked the servant through the keyhole, not forgetting his manners. "Oh, I cannot turn the key!
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