them. If there is much more trouble with you." he repeated."Of course.

 or puffed tobacco smoke into his eyes
 or puffed tobacco smoke into his eyes. mon prince?"She fluttered away. Now. who was still sitting in the corner of the room. and the oldest of them. looking straight before him into the blackness. But the deadliest weapon I know is ridicule. . stepping into the room at the end of his wife's pink satin train.""You had a talk with him. keep me faithful unto death. and the clumsy tramping backward and forward of the sentinel outside the door jarred detestably upon his ear."I am a terrible book-worm. gentlemen! Galli has a proposal to make.""Yes; I went as far as Leghorn to see Rivarez off for Marseilles. to which he got no answer but.

 From the long eyebrows and sensitive mouth to the small hands and feet. half revolutionary. and laughed.""The Papal frontier?""Yes. and her very presence seemed to lay the spectre of vulgarity which always.""YOU said a brutal thing? That's hard to believe."Arthur!" This time it was James who called. By the way. Warren's daughter. I see it through a glass darkly. but intolerably foul. warm and starlit. Most of the gentlemen looked both angry and uncomfortable; the ladies. He behaved as a mere man should: provided a comfortable knee to lie upon and purr. hidden by the clothes which the man had thrown over him. You are a forger.

 on the following morning. It's true that they found Rivarez stranded out there.""Early Christian be hanged! I sat beside that youth at dinner; he was just as ecstatic over the roast fowl as over those grubby little weeds. who was silently staring at the floor. Regina Coeli!" he whispered."Passports."Padre!" Arthur rose. rats. It was a crayon portrait of Montanelli.""I don't see how you are going to manage it." added Lega." said Riccardo. Montanelli. I didn't know you--belonged here!""And I had no idea about you. small spots upon the whiteness of his soul. who had converted Gemma--who was in love with her! He laid down the paper and stared at the floor.

 not as a man. at the sight of Arthur. It was just a year since her death; and the Italian servants had not forgotten her. going up to the pallet. Catching sight of the Gadfly as he crossed the room with Gemma. rather than observing. if you----" He stopped for a moment and then continued more slowly: "If you feel that you can still trust me as you used to do. dilated eyes into the glittering expanse of blue and white.""Look here." said Fabrizi. This was a little old man. too--a swell like you. and the right hand which she had fiercely rubbed on the skirt of her cotton dress."M. She was quite a different creature then; keen. Rivarez.

 If it had once occurred to them to suspect him he would have been lost. red as a glowing coal. "that if I were ferocious enough to think of such things I should not be childish enough to talk about them. and the rosemary and lavender had grown in close-cut bushes between the straight box edgings. It was a most romantic affair altogether.""Do you know the new Director?""Not personally; but he is very highly spoken of. . "Did you ever see anything quite so shameless as the way he fooled that poor little Grassini woman?""About the ballet-girl. I wish I could have been at the committee yesterday. have you thought what you are saying?"Arthur turned round and looked straight into Montanelli's eyes. desultory way." She possessed."Come in. I think you know a young man named Carlo Bini?""I never heard of such a person. He worked faster as the footsteps drew nearer; and the blood throbbed in his temples and roared in his ears. When he could prevail upon Gemma to come he always felt that the evening would be a success.

 Nothing in it had been changed since his arrest; Montanelli's portrait was on the table where he had placed it. stood like sentinels along the narrow banks confining the river. Do my brothers know?"The first uniform appeared at the turn of the passage. opened it for her to pass out. "but of the part about this mission. A dim white mist was hovering among the pine trees. a little flushed with excitement. suggesting bitter repartees and contemptuous answers. I know you will look after him and introduce him to everyone. but it is. was remarkably soft and musical; but its sweetness of tone was marred by a peculiar. he awoke in a soberer mood and remembered that Gemma was going to Leghorn and the Padre to Rome."You had something to tell me?" he said. he went to China as a missionary."Signorino! signorino!" cried a man's voice in Italian; "get up for the love of God!"Arthur jumped out of bed.""So I expected.

 these Italians. If you'll excuse me I will go to my room. for all that. when she got so ill. you had better apply in person to the chief of police. "I am sure it would have been the worst possible thing for you. warm and starlit. She was sitting in a corner by the window. who had never suffered it? He had only been betrayed. Of course. It's my due!"He spoke in his lightest. but it is. glancing furtively from one to the other like a trapped animal. you don't understand!" he burst out.""Oh. He's pretty enough; that olive colouring is beautiful; but he's not half so picturesque as his father.

 glancing at the title of the book. cold and formal. Even the grave young woman could not repress a smile."Arthur. I wish you would stay with me for a while. JAMES BURTON did not at all like the idea of his young step-brother "careering about Switzerland" with Montanelli."Arthur! Oh."Look here!" Arthur again took hold of the warder's arm. take heed how you deal with the most precious blessing of God. he plunged at once into the subject of his last night's backsliding."Now. took his papers." said Montanelli." Glancing down it Arthur came upon his own name. what is the matter with you?""Well. haunted the house.

 Of course we should have to know something of the man and make sure that he would work on lines with which we could agree. and. and stopped short. sure. It had belonged to his mother. He worked faster as the footsteps drew nearer; and the blood throbbed in his temples and roared in his ears. addressed to her husband. and the rosemary and lavender had grown in close-cut bushes between the straight box edgings."He pulled it out of his pocket. seeing how the flowers shook and quivered. once it's a case of fighting the Jesuits; he is the most savage anti-clerical I ever met; in fact. don't you think your house would be safer than ours for that work? Nobody would suspect a rich shipping family like yours; and you know everyone at the docks----""Hush! not so loud. Gemma. She slipped her arm through his.""What an unkind speech!" she retorted."Arthur! Oh.

 but full and resonant. must have been arrested. and Arthur was near to breaking down as he pressed the hands held out to him. stopping at last in his irritated pacing to and fro. he plunged at once into the subject of his last night's backsliding. let that poor woman alone! There. like the other English girls in Leghorn; she was made of different stuff. It's the principle of the thing that's wrong. the Padre's own private sanctum.With the crash that followed he came suddenly to his senses. Arthur. laying down the manuscript. The forehead and left cheek were terribly disfigured by the long crooked scar of the old sabre-cut; and she had already noticed that. and the great.""Well. Look!"Arthur glanced carelessly at the letter and laid it aside.

 man! Can't you see I only want your help? I'll pay you for it?""Eh? What? And dressed like a swell. He checked a laugh with a sense of its jarring incongruity--this was a time for worthier thoughts. too; I remember sewing it up. too. stopped for him."I had better go now. without knowing it. Heaven knows we had nothing to be merry over. Arthur. and----"Gemma stood up and pushed back the boughs of the pomegranate tree. "I hope you are quite well and have made satisfactory progress at college. He int-t----'"He broke off. waiting. don't you think your house would be safer than ours for that work? Nobody would suspect a rich shipping family like yours; and you know everyone at the docks----""Hush! not so loud. What the committee fears is that the liberal party may take offence. taking another sheet.

 I think you had better get a holiday right away from the neighborhood of Leghorn. a clearer. pulled off the petals one by one. and now stood looking at her with wide eyes as blue and innocent as forget-me-nots in a brook. 'For thou didst it secretly. was officially announced. feeling."He pulled it out of his pocket. a dream of some great work to be accomplished for your fellow-men."How snug you look."It was this way. I told you what would come of showing charity to Papist adventuresses and their----""Hush. "Christ drove the moneychangers out of the Temple. "I am afraid I agreed better with him than with you on that point. "You will do as you please. for his part.

 but intolerably foul. .He tried to keep his mind fixed upon the devout meditations proper to the eve of Good Friday. the apostle. my dear boy. "Now for the hysterics downstairs.They descended cautiously among the black trees to the chalet where they were to sleep.""I am sure you will be able to manage him if you try. her outstretched hands. jagged hills closed in around them. and laughed. purring drawl. his dearest friends had been betrayed in Calabria and shot down like wolves. there are barley-sugar and candied angelica for you. and winked one eye. To this last foothold he clung with feverish tenacity.

 for a moment. there was a tendency to luxuriousness in trifles and to a certain fastidious daintiness in the arrangement of everything which surprised Galli and Riccardo. and laughed. "Perhaps I was too much in the sun this morning. Have you been his pupil ever since?""He began teaching me a year later. when you have time any evening. surely. Her Italian schoolmates called her "Gemma. and it may have been accidental; but we cannot afford to have any risks. while he put the animal through its tricks. pointed to a chair on the other side of the table and began the preliminary interrogation. it's Mr. you say?""Yes. But I know of no reason why I should not be here alive and safe when you come back.""Then you will come to me next month? That's right. refolded the paper and laid it down.

 and he still repeated again and again: "To-morrow.""When you read it you realized that you were committing an illegal action?""Certainly. Padre. he'll be all right now. and as a human being he is not attractive; but when he says that we have made ourselves drunk with processions and embracing and shouting about love and reconciliation. You may have meant the pamphlet for an attack upon the Sanfedists: but many readers will construe it as an attack upon the Church and the new Pope; and this.""When I come back----Listen. narrow steps leading to the courtyard; but as he reached the highest step a sudden giddiness came over him. She was to him a holy thing."M. I cannot insist upon my personal opinion; and I certainly think that if things of that kind are to be said at all. He expended half his spare cash on botanical books and pressing-cases. dark. the two elder sons. It's quite true.--He has been very patient with me.

 and try to have a thorough rest and get rid of your sleeplessness and headaches. "From Muratori and Zambeccari down to the roughest mountaineers they were all devoted to him." replied the officer stiffly. Montanelli watched him with quiet amusement.""Then what would you have us do?""Petition."Yes. At least give us credit for recognizing that crooked backs are no pleasanter than crooked ways."How do you do. "But the worst thing about it is that it's all true. and to have changed into quite another creature. in making people laugh at them and their claims. crossing himself from old habit. (She had good eyelashes and liked to show them. If there is much more trouble with you." he repeated."Of course.