That branch of Lake Como turns off to the south between two unbroken chains of mountains, all bays and inlets, depending on the lodge and the return of those, comes almost Suddenly, to shrink, and take the course and shape of the river between a promontory on the right, and a coastline on the other side, and the bridge that connects the two banks there, seems to make even more sensitive to ' watch this transformation, and marks the point where the lake ends, and the Adda starts again, then resumes for the name of the lake where the shore and away again, Permit water to relax and slow down in new bays and new breasts. The coast, formed by the deposition of three major streams, backed down to two adjacent mountains, said one of St. Martin, the other voice Lombard Resegone from many of its summits in a row, make it look like that in real a saw; so that is not who, at first sight, provided that it is overlooked, as for example on the walls of Milan who look to the north, do not discern at once, to such a mark, in that long and broad ridge, from the other mountains named the darkest and most common form. For a good piece, the coast rises slowly and continuously with a slope, then breaks into hills and valleys, and steep in ispianate, according to the framework of 'two mountains, and the work of the waters. The extreme edge, cut from the mouths of 'streams, is almost all gravel and pebbles, and the rest, fields and vineyards, scattered lands, villas, houses, somewhere in the woods, which extend up the mountain. Lecco, the principal of those lands, and which gives its name to the territory, lies not far from the bridge to the shore of the lake, is indeed partly located in the lake itself, when it thickens, a large town today, and sets off to become a city. Back when we happened to tell the facts, that the village, already considerable, was also a castle, and therefore had the honor of a commander to stay, and the advantage of having a permanent garrison of English soldiers, that the insegnavan modesty to young girls and women of the country, accarezzavan from time to time away from some husband, a father, and, towards the end of the summer, not mancavan never spread in the vineyards, the grapes to dissipate, and reduce to ' peasants toil of harvest. From one of those lands, From the high ground to the shore, on a hill to another, running, and running, however, roads and lanes, more or less steep, or flat, sometimes sunken, buried between two walls, whence, looking up, not soon be shown whether a piece of sky and a few top of the mountain, sometimes on high embankments open: and from here the view extends to statements more or less extended, but always rich and always something new, according to the different points piglian more or less of the vast surrounding scene , and second that this or that side stands or views, or disappears to check each other. Where a piece, where another, where a long stretch of that vast and varied water surface, the lake here, closed end, or rather lost in a group, hustle and bustle of a mountain, and from hand to hand broader among other mountains that are explained, one by one, the eye, and that the water reflects the upside, co 'little villages on the banks, beyond the arm of the river , then the lake, then the river again, going to get lost amid the polished winding 'mountains that accompany it, degrading gradually, and almost losing the horizon too. The very place from which to contemplate this' various shows, there is entertainment on every side: the mountain walks in the water, we carried out, above, around, its peaks and crags, bills, collects, almost immutable at every step, opening up and surrounded in yokes what seemed there was only a first yoke, and appearing in shortly before the summit that will be represented on the coast and the lovely, the servant of those wild pitches pleasant temperatures, and adorns the streets of the other magnificent views.
For one lane, came back pretty good walk from home, on the evening of 7 November of 1628, Don Abbondio, edited by one of lands mentioned above: the name of this, nor the house of the character, no one finds in the manuscript, or to this site or elsewhere. He said his ufizio quietly, and sometimes, between one psalm and another, closed his breviary, drawing you into, to sign, the right index finger, and then put this in the other behind his back, he continued his journey , looking at the ground, with one foot and throwing the pebbles at the wall that were stumbling in the path: then raised his face, and turned his eyes around idly, staring at them to part of a mountain, where the sun already disappeared, running away to the cleft of the mountain opposite, was painted here and there on the rocks sticking out, as unequal and large patches of purple. Open again the breviary, and played another hole, came to a turn of the narrow street, where he was usually always get up in her eyes from the book, and look before: and so did that day. After the turn, the road ran straight, maybe sixty paces, and then split into two lanes, in the shape of a wye: one on the right up towards the mountain, and he led care: the other down in the valley down to the creek, and on this side of the wall did not reach that of transient hip. The interior walls of the two lanes, instead of sit in a corner, ending in a tabernacle, on which certain figures were painted long, winding, which ended at the tip, and that the intention of the artist, and in the eyes of the inhabitants of Neighbourhood volevan dir flames, and, alternating with the flames, cert'altre figures they can not describe, say that the souls in purgatory volevan: anime flames and color of brick, upon a background bigiognolo, with some scalcinatura here and there. The parish priest, turned the narrow street, and directs, as was usual, the look of the tabernacle, he saw something that did not expect, and did not want to see. Two men, one opposite the other, at the confluence, so to speak, of the two lanes: one of them, astride on the wall down, one leg, hung outside, and the other foot resting on the ground road mate, standing, leaning against the wall, arms crossed over his chest. The dress, posture, and what, from the place where was the parish priest arrived, he could distinguish the appearance, no doubt about the lasciavan their condition. Both had a green net around the head, falling left humerus, which ended in a large tassel, and from which emerged a huge tuft on his forehead, two long mustache curled at the tip: a glossy leather belt, and attacked the two guns: a small horn filled with dust, sagging chest, like a string: the handle of a knife sticking out of a pocket of the large and puffy pants: a sword, with a great perforated sheets of guard ' brass, as in figure framed, polished and shiny: at first glance you gave for people to know the species of 'good.
This species, now entirely lost, was then flourishing in Lombardy, and already very old. Who would not mind, here are some genuine insights that may furnish a sufficient de 'its main characters, the efforts to ispegnerla, and its hard and vigorous vitality. Up from eight
April of 1583, the Illustrious and Excellent Don Carlo d'Aragon, Prince of Castelvetrano, Duke of Terranova, Marquis d'Avola, Earl of Burgeto, great Admiral, and Grand Constable of Sicily, to Milan Governor and Captain General of His Catholic Majesty in Italy, fully informed of the intolerable misery in which this city is vivuta and lives in Milan, on account of good and vagabonds, issue a call against them. Diffin all those states and be included in this notice, and having to feel good and vagabonds ... which, being foreigners or the country, did not exercise any, or having, they do not ... but, without pay, or even with it, they rely to some knight or gentleman, or official dealer ... back to him and please, or indeed, as can be expected to tend to other dangers ... To all these orders, within six days, they have to vacate the country, orders the jail to 'draft-dodgers, and gives justice to all ufiziali the most strangely large and undefined power, to execute the order. But the following year, April 12, said seeing the Lord, however, that this city is full of these good ... returned to live like before they lived, not at all changed their costume, nor diminished the number, give out another cry, even more vigorous and remarkable, in which, among other orders, provides: That any person
, so this City, as a foreigner, that two witnesses will consist shall be held, and widely reputed for good, et having that name, although he did not experience any crime ... this one's good reputation, no other indizj, may by that court and each of them be put to the rope et al torment, to process information ... et albeit not confess any crime, however, is sent to the galley, for that period, for the sole opinion and good name, as above. All this and more that you leave, because His Excellency is determined to want to be obeyed by everyone.
When we heard words of a man so much, so valiant and safe, and accompanied by such orders, is a strong desire to believe that the only roar of them, all good to have disappeared forever. But the testimony of a man no less authoritative, no less with names, forcing us to believe just the opposite. This is the illustrious and HE Mr. Juan Fernandez de Velasco, Constable of Castile, Maid greater than Her Majesty, Duke of the City of Frias, Count of Haro and Castelnovo, Lord of the House of Velasco, and that of the seven Infants of Lara, Governor of Milan, etc.. On 5 June of 1593, he also fully informed of the damage and ruins Siena ... the good and vagabonds, and the bad effect that this kind of person, is against the public good, and in a disappointment of Justice, telling them again that within the period of six days, they sbrattare in the country, repeating very nearly the same requirements and threats of his predecessor. On May 23, then the year 1598, informed, with no little sorrow of his soul, that ... any more in this city and State is growing the number of these men (good and tramps), nor of them, day and night, you hear that another injury dates lie in wait, murder and robbery and every other quality of offenses to which make it easier, they confide to be helped by good leaders and their supporters ... again requires the same remedies, by increasing the dose, as still used in stubborn diseases. Everyone, therefore, concludes then, you look onninamente contravene any part of the cries This, because, instead of proving the clemency of his Excellency, the penalty try, and his wrath ... being resolved and determined that this is the last and peremptory admonition.
But it was not of this opinion the Illustrious and Excellent Lord, Mr. Don Pedro Enriquez de Acevedo, Count of Fuentes, Captain and Governor of the State of Milan was not of this opinion, and for good reason. Fully informed of the poverty that lives in this City and State by reason of the large number of good that abounds in it ... and resolved to completely eradicate seed so pernicious, it gives out on 5 December, 1600, a new cry also full of severe imposition, with firm proposing that, with all severity, and without hope of remission, onninamente be executed.
We must, however, believe that we do not put all that with good will that could be used in the order cabals, and the enemies to excite his great enemy Henry IV, since, for this part, as history attests that king was able to arm against the Duke of Savoy, who did lose most of a city, how could conspire to make the Duke of Biron, who did lose his head, but, as regards this suit as pernicious de 'good, it is certain that it continued to germinate on 22 September of 1612. On that day the Illustrious and Excellent Lord, Don Juan de Mendoza, Marquis de la Hynojosa, etc Gentleman., Governor etc. he thought seriously to eradicate it. To this effect, and sent to Marco Tullio Pandolfo Malatesta, printers Royalists Chambers, the usual cries, corrected and enhanced, because the press to extermination of 'good. But they still lived to receive, on 24 December, the year 1618, the same shots dall'Illustrissimo and strongest and most Excellent Lord, Mr. Don Gomez Suarez de Figueroa, Duke of Feria, etc., Governor etc. However, since they have not even the dead ones, the most Illustrious and Excellent Lord, Mr. Gonzalo Fernandez de Cordova, under whose government the walk happened Abbondio Don, had been forced to ricorreggere and republish the usual cries against the good , day 5 October of 1627, one year, one month and two days before that memorable event.
Nor was this the last publication, but we do not believe the rear having to make mention, as something that comes from the period of our history. As we will mention only one of 13 February of 1632, in which the Illustrious and Excellent Lord, el Duque de Feria, for the second time governor, warns us that the greatest wickedness proceed from what they call good. This is enough to make sure that in time we are dealing with, was of 'good though.
That the two described above were there to wait for somebody, it was too obvious, but what was most displeased at having to don Abbondio notice, for certain acts, that he had expected. Because, as it appeared, those s'eran look on his face, raising his head with a movement from which one could see at once that both had said: he is the man what he was astride had got up, pulling his leg on the road, the other had detached from the wall, and both set off the meeting. He always keeping his breviary open before him, as if it read, drove up the look, inspired by the movements of people, and, seeing him be your meeting, was suddenly attacked by a thousand thoughts. Quickly once asked himself whether, between the good and him, there was some off the road, right or left, and he remembered no right away. He made a quick examination if he had sinned against some powerful, vengeful against some, but even in that trouble, the witness of conscience assured him somewhat comforting: the good, however, approached, looking him straight. He put his index and middle fingers of his left hand in the collar, as if to mend, and, turning two fingers around the neck, while his face turned backward, twisting her mouth together, and looking with one eye, since where he could, if someone came, but saw no one. He glanced, over the low wall, it 'fields: no, another more modest on the road before, and none except the good. What to do? back, was not quick enough to give it legs, was the same that is, inseguitemi, or worse. Not being able to dodge the danger, I ran, because the moments of uncertainty, then were so painful for him, who wanted nothing more than an abbreviation. He quickened his pace, he recited a verse in a louder voice, he composed his face to all that peace and laughter as he could, made every effort to bring a smile when he found himself in front of the two gentlemen, "he said mentally, we have, and stopped on two feet.
- Mr nice, - said one of those 'two, plant the eyes in the face.
- What do you charge? - Don Abbondio immediately answered, lifting her from the book, which was left wide open in his hands, as upon a lectern.
- Do you intend, - Continued the other, with the angry and threatening act of one who takes his lower sull'intraprendere a villainy, - she plans to marry tomorrow Tramaglino Renzo and Lucia Mondella!
- That ... - Replied, his voice quivering, Don Abbondio: - ie. Gentlemen are men of the world, and they know how these matters. The poor curate has nothing to do: make their mess together, and then ... and then, come to us, as giving in to a bank shalt recover, and we ... we are the servants of the municipality.
- Well, - said the bravo, the ear, but in a solemn tone of command, - that marriage is not to do, not tomorrow, not ever.
- But, gentlemen, - said Don Abbondio meek and gentle with the voice of someone who wants to persuade an impatient - but, gentlemen, they will deign to put them 'my shoes. If it were up to me ... vedon good that comes to me I do not anything in his pocket ...
- Come, - interrupted the good - if it had to decide to talk, she would put us in a sack. We do not know, We want to hear or find out more. Man warned ... c'intende her.
- But these gentlemen are too righteous, too reasonable ...
- But - this time broke another companion, who had not spoken since then - but the marriage will not be made, o. .. - And here a good blasphemy - or who will not regret it, because they do not have time, e. .. - Another blasphemy.
- Hush, hush, - resumed the first speaker: - The curate is a man who knows the world live, and we are honest, that We do not want to hurt him, provided they have legal proceedings. Curate, the illustrious Don Rodrigo our master the reveres dearly.
This name was in the mind of Don abound, as in a time of strong night, a flash that lights up momentarily confused and objects, and heightens the terror. He, as if by instinct, a grand'inchino, and said - if I knew suggest ...
- Oh! to suggest that she knows Latin! - Again interrupted the good, with a laugh between the vulgar and vicious. - She touches. And above all, do not let word get out about this warning that we gave for his own good, otherwise ... um ... would do the same that this marriage. Via, which means that anybody tells you his name all'illustrissimo Don Rodrigo?
- My respect ...
- Explain better!
-... Willing ... Always willing to obey -. And uttering these words, did not even know if he made a promise, or a compliment. I took the good, or mostraron to take them to mean more serious.
- Very good, and good night, sir, - said one of them, actually leaving his companion. Don abundance, which, moments before he would give an eye for iscansarli, then he wanted to prolong the conversation and negotiations. - Gentlemen ... - He began, closing the book with both hands, but ones, without hearing him, took the road dond'era he came, and went away, singing a canzonaccia I do not want to transcribe. Poor Don Abbondio remained a moment with his mouth open, like enchanted, then took one of the two streets leading to his house, barely putting forward one leg after the other, which seemed aggranchiate. Same as within, shall be understood better when we have said something of his nature, and de 'days when he was fated to live. Don
Abbondio (the player he's already well-informed) was not born with a heart of a lion. But, since 'its first year, he had to understand that the worst conditions, this' time, was that of an animal without claws and fangs, and yet did not feel inclination of being devoured. The power law did not protect any account of the quiet man, harmless, and that he had no other means to frighten others. Not that lacked laws and penalties against private violence. The laws even flood, the crimes were enumerated, and detailed, with minute prolixity, penalties, and wildly exorbitant, if not sufficient, to increase, almost every case, at the discretion of the legislature itself and a hundred performers, and procedures, designed only to free the court from anything that could be his is unable to utter a sentence: the glimpses that we have given the outcry against the good, there are a small but faithful wise. Even so, in fact largely on account of this, those proclamations, republished and strengthened governance in government, no other use but to demonstrate the impotence of highfalutin 'authors, or, if producevan some immediate effect, was mainly for those who add many harassment the peaceful and weak already suffering from 'disruptive, and the increase of violence and cunning of them. Impunity was organized, and had roots that the proclamations did not touch, or could not smove. These were day-care centers, such privileges of certain classes, in part recognized by legal force, partly tolerated with sullen silence, or challenged with useless protests, but in fact supported and defended by those classes, with activities of interest, and with jealous pique. Now, quest'impunità threatened and insulted, but not destroyed by proclamations, was of course, to any threat, and every insult, use new inventions and new efforts to preserve itself. So in effect happened, and the appearance of edicts aimed at the violent collapse, they tried their strength in the real new media most appropriate to continue to do so that the proclamations were to prohibit. Potevan well jam them at every step, and harass the good-natured man, who was without strength and without its protection, because, with the goal of having every man under his hand, to prevent or punish any crime, subjecting every move of the private the arbitrary will of performers of all kinds. But who, before committing the crime had taken his measures in time to take refuge in a convent, a palace, where the policemen would not have dared set foot, and who, without further precautions, wearing a livery that commitment to uphold the vanity and interest of a powerful family, of a whole class, he was free in its operations, and could laugh at all this din of the cries. Of those same deputies who were to execute them, some by birth belonged to the privileged part, depend on it for some customers, the ones and others, for education, self-interest, by custom, by imitation, they had embraced the highs and would have been very careful from offending, for the sake of a piece of paper stuck on the corners. Men then in charge of the immediate, when they were enterprising as heroes, as obedient monks, and ready to sacrifice themselves as martyrs, but they would not have come at the end, com'eran lower number than that it was subject, and a large probability of being abandoned by those who, in the abstract, as it were, in theory, require them to operate. But besides that, they were typically de 'most despicable villains and actors of their time was required to charge their vile even by those who fear they could have, and their way a curse. It was therefore quite natural that they, instead of risking, even to cast life in a desperate enterprise, selling their inaction, or their complicity with the powerful, and reserves the right to exercise their authority and cursed the force had also, on those occasions where there was no danger; nell'opprimer that is, men and harass peaceful and defenseless.
The man who wants to offend, or fear, every moment, of being offended, of course, look for allies and friends. So it was, in this' time, reach a maximum point, the tendency of individuals to stay connected in classes, to train new ones, and to delivering the most power of each one to which he belonged. The clergy watched that support and extend its immunity, the nobility of its privileges, its military exemptions. The merchants, artisans and craftsmen were enlisted in in fraternities, the jurists formed a league, the doctors themselves a corporation. Each of these little oligarchies had its own special force and, in each of the individual was used for the benefit of itself, a proportion of his authority and his dexterity, the united forces of many. The more honest you valevan of this advantage only in defense, took advantage of the astute and troublemakers, for carrying out rascality, to which their personal means would not be sufficient, and to ensure the impunity. The forces, however, these various alloys were very uneven, and, in the main campaign, the wealthy noble and violent, with around a bevy of good, and a population of farmers accustomed to family tradition, and involved in, or forced to be looked upon almost as subjects and soldiers of the master, exercising a power, to which hardly any fraction of a league there would have been able to resist.
Our abundance is not noble, not rich, still less brave, he had noticed then, almost touching the first years of discretion, to be in that society, like a pot of cooked earth, forced to travel with many vessels of iron. He therefore, very willingly, to obey parents, who wanted him as a priest. To tell the truth, he had not done much thought to the obligations and noble aims of the ministry to which he devoted himself: procure a living with some ease, and get into a class revered and strong, two had seemed more than enough reasons for that choice. But a class does not protect any one individual, not sure which to a certain point: not exempt him from getting his particular system. Don Abbondio, it continuously absorbed 'thoughts of their own quiet, did not care of this' benefits, which did need to get a lot of work, or run the risk of a little. His system was mainly on the shelves all the odds, and in the sale, those who could not avoid. Unarmed neutrality in all wars that broke out around him from contention, then frequent, among the clergy and secular mayor, between military and civilian, between noble and noble, to the issues between two peasants, born of a word, and decided with fists or with knives. If it was absolutely forced to take part between two contenders, was with the strongest, but always in the rear, and procuring another to show that he had not voluntarily enemy that seemed to say, but because you have not been able to be you the strongest? I would have put me on your side. Staying away from 'bullies, disguising their soverchierie fleeting and capricious, with corresponding submission to those who were intent on more serious and more thoughtful, compelling, by force of bows and jovial than even the most surly and contemptuous , to give him a smile, when The meetings the street, the poor man had managed to pass six decades, no big storms.
It is not that he had his bit 'of bile in the body, and that continuous exercise patience, that so often lead to other reason, this' many bitter pills swallowed in silence, had embittered him to sign that, if had not, from time to time, been able to give it some 'relief, his health certainly suffered n'avrebbe. But since then finally the world were there, and near him, he knew very well for people incapable of hurting, so he could vent some time with those long repressed the evil spirits, extricate himself and the desire to be a bit 'fantastic, and shouting in the wrong. It was then a rigid censor regolavan of men who do not like him, but when the censorship could be exercised without any even distant danger. The beat was at least a reckless, the murdered man had always been murky. Who, he set to sustain its case against a powerful, remained with his head broke, don Abbondio could always find some wrong, what is not difficult, because the right and wrong is not dividon never cut so sharply, that each party has only of one or the other. Above all things, this declaimed against 'his brother who, at their own risk, prendevan parts of a weak and oppressed, against a powerful overwhelmed. This is called a buy gl'impicci in cash, a desire to raddirizzar legs dogs, also said sternly, which was a mix of things profane, to the detriment of the dignity of the sacred ministry. And against such preaching, but always eye to eye, or in a small circle, with much more vehemence, as they were known to be aggrieved by the aliens, in which touch them personally. He was then one of his favorite sentence, by which sealed always talk about these matters: that a gentleman, who is watching him, and it is' his shoes, do not ever accadon unpleasant encounters.
think now my twenty-five readers had to make that impression on the soul of the poor, the one who has told you. The terror of this' visacci and those bad words, the threat of a gentleman known not to threaten in vain, a system of a quiet life, which had cost him so many years of study and patience, puzzled at one point, and a step from which you could not see how to get out: all those tumultuous thoughts were buzzing in the head down Don Abbondio. "Renzo If you could send in peace with a hell no, way, but want reason, and what I have to answer him, for heaven's sake? And, and, and, he also is a head: a lamb if no one touches but if anyone wants to contradict ... hee! And then, and then lost behind that Lucy, as in love ... boy, who, not knowing what to do, fall in love, They want to get married and do not think about anything else; not take charge of 'troubles in putting a poor gentleman. Oh dear! see if those two fool dovevan own tears on my way, and take it with me! What have I to do? It is I who want to marry? Why I am not quite gone to talk ... Oh you see a little: much is my fate, that things about me Let them always in mind a time after the event. If I had thought of suggesting to them that they were going to take their embassy ... "But at this point, he realized that the regret of not having been a director and co-worker of iniquity it was too unfair, and turned all the anger of 'His thoughts were against other one so that took away his peace. He knew that Don Rodrigo of view and fame, nor had he ever had to do with him, but touching the chest with his chin, and the earth with the tip of his hat, the few times that he had met on the street. It had occurred to defend, in more than one occasion, the reputation of that gentleman, against those who, in a low voice, sighing, and looking up at the sky, cursing the fact some of his: he said that it was a hundred times respectable gentleman. But at that moment he gave him his heart all these 'titles that had never heard applied by others, without breaking fast with a oibò. Coupling between the tumult of those thoughts, the door of his house, which was at the bottom of the village, quickly put the key in the lock, which already held in his hand, opened it, entered, closed it carefully, and, anxious to be in a trusted company, now called: - Perpetua! Perpetua! -, Going well into the living room, where it must have certainly set the table for dinner. Perpetua was as if everyone fully realize the servant of Don Abbondio: loyal and faithful servant, who knew how to obey and command, according to the occasion, time to tolerate the mutterings and fantasticaggini master, and make them endure their time , changing into that every day more often, from which he had passed the age of forty Synod, being unmarried, having refused to all parties that were offered, as she put it, or because they never found a dog that wanted, they said as her friends.
- I come, - said, putting on the table, the site normally, the flask of wine, a favorite of Don Abbondio, and moved slowly, but had not yet reached the threshold of the room, he came in with a step so closely linked, with a look so overshadowed with a face so distorted, that there would not even need the expert eye of Perpetua soon be shown whether at first sight that something extraordinary had happened really.
- Mercy! What did you, sir?
- Nothing, nothing, - said Don Abbondio, letting go of all panting on his chair.
- How, nothing? He wants to give to understand me? so ugly it is? Some great event took place.
- Oh, for heaven's sake! When I say nothing, or nothing, or is it something I can not say.
- What can not even tell me? Who will take care of your health? Who will give an opinion ...?
- Alas! be quiet and not make ready another: Give me a glass of my wine.
- And she will support that has nothing! - Perpetua said, filling his glass, and then holding it in his hand, as if he would give that award was so confident that you wait.
- dates here given here, - said Don Abbondio, taking the glass, his hand is not steady, and then by voting in a hurry, like a medicine.
- Will I then be forced here and there of asking what happened to my master? - Said Perpetua, standing before him, his hands thrown back on her hips, elbows and pinned in front, staring, as if to suck the secret from her eyes.
- For God's sake! Do not gossip, do not make noises: it goes ... it's life!
- Life!
- Life.
- You are aware that every time something told me frankly, in confidence, I never ...
- Brava! as if ...
Perpetua perceived to have touched a wrong button, so, immediately changing the tone, - master, - he said, voice full of emotion and commotion, - I have always been the loyal, and if now I want to know is to hurry, because I would be able to help, give good advice, lift the soul ... The fact is that Don
Abbondio Had a great desire to be relieved of his painful secret, to know how much he had Perpetua, whence, after having rejected the increasingly weak new and more pressing assault her, after having done more than once swear not breathe, at last, with many suspensions, with many, alas, told her the miserable case. When it came to the terrible name of the client, Perpetua proferisse need a new and more solemn oath and don Abbondio, pronouncing the name, tipped back in his chair, with a deep sigh, raising his hands, set in place to control and supplication, and saying - for heaven's sake!
- Its! - Perpetua said. - Oh, what a rascal! oh that overwhelmed! oh what a man with no fear of God!
- Want to be silent? or you want to ruin it all?
- Oh! we are only here that no one can hear us. But how will, poor sir?
- Oh you see, - said Don Abbondio, peevish voice: - you see that she give good advice I guess! Is to ask how I, as I will, as if she nell'impiccio, it was my turn to levarnela.
- Ma! well I would have to give my poor opinion, but then ...
- But then, we hear.
- My opinion is that since everyone says that our archbishop is a holy man, and a man's wrist, and who is not afraid of anyone, and when it can do star to a duty of these bullies, to support a nice, overjoyed us, I would say, and say that she wrote a beautiful letter, informing him as qualmente ...
- Want to be silent? you remain silent? Son Codest advice to give to a poor man? When I had touched a shot in the back, God forbid! Archbishop would stand me?
- Eh! The gunshots are not given away like confetti: and God help us if these dogs were to bite every time they bark! And I've always seen that those who can show their teeth, and get estimates, it takes respect, and, precisely because she never wants to tell his reason, we are reduced to a sign that all are, licensed, a. ..
- Want to be silent?
- I am silent now; But it is certain that, when the world realizes that one, always, in every meeting, is ready to lower the ...
- Want to be silent? It is now time to say Codest nonsense?
- Simply: we think the night, but while it begins to get hurt by him, to ruin his health, eat a bite.
- I'll think about it, - said, grumbling, Don Abbondio: - sure, I'll think about it, I like to think I - and got up and continued: - I will not take nothing, nothing, I have no desire, I know too ' I think that it's up to me. But! would happen to the precisely to me.
- down to send at least this one dropped, - said Perpetua out the wine. - You know, this always puts the stomach.
- Eh! Do not bother, it takes something else, we want more. So saying he took the lamp, and, still grumbling: - a small trifle! to a gentleman like me! com'andrà and tomorrow? - And similar lamentations, walked in the room to climb. Arrived on the threshold, he turned back towards Perpetua, put his finger over his mouth, he said, with slow and solemn tone: - For God's sake! - And disappeared.
For one lane, came back pretty good walk from home, on the evening of 7 November of 1628, Don Abbondio, edited by one of lands mentioned above: the name of this, nor the house of the character, no one finds in the manuscript, or to this site or elsewhere. He said his ufizio quietly, and sometimes, between one psalm and another, closed his breviary, drawing you into, to sign, the right index finger, and then put this in the other behind his back, he continued his journey , looking at the ground, with one foot and throwing the pebbles at the wall that were stumbling in the path: then raised his face, and turned his eyes around idly, staring at them to part of a mountain, where the sun already disappeared, running away to the cleft of the mountain opposite, was painted here and there on the rocks sticking out, as unequal and large patches of purple. Open again the breviary, and played another hole, came to a turn of the narrow street, where he was usually always get up in her eyes from the book, and look before: and so did that day. After the turn, the road ran straight, maybe sixty paces, and then split into two lanes, in the shape of a wye: one on the right up towards the mountain, and he led care: the other down in the valley down to the creek, and on this side of the wall did not reach that of transient hip. The interior walls of the two lanes, instead of sit in a corner, ending in a tabernacle, on which certain figures were painted long, winding, which ended at the tip, and that the intention of the artist, and in the eyes of the inhabitants of Neighbourhood volevan dir flames, and, alternating with the flames, cert'altre figures they can not describe, say that the souls in purgatory volevan: anime flames and color of brick, upon a background bigiognolo, with some scalcinatura here and there. The parish priest, turned the narrow street, and directs, as was usual, the look of the tabernacle, he saw something that did not expect, and did not want to see. Two men, one opposite the other, at the confluence, so to speak, of the two lanes: one of them, astride on the wall down, one leg, hung outside, and the other foot resting on the ground road mate, standing, leaning against the wall, arms crossed over his chest. The dress, posture, and what, from the place where was the parish priest arrived, he could distinguish the appearance, no doubt about the lasciavan their condition. Both had a green net around the head, falling left humerus, which ended in a large tassel, and from which emerged a huge tuft on his forehead, two long mustache curled at the tip: a glossy leather belt, and attacked the two guns: a small horn filled with dust, sagging chest, like a string: the handle of a knife sticking out of a pocket of the large and puffy pants: a sword, with a great perforated sheets of guard ' brass, as in figure framed, polished and shiny: at first glance you gave for people to know the species of 'good.
This species, now entirely lost, was then flourishing in Lombardy, and already very old. Who would not mind, here are some genuine insights that may furnish a sufficient de 'its main characters, the efforts to ispegnerla, and its hard and vigorous vitality. Up from eight
April of 1583, the Illustrious and Excellent Don Carlo d'Aragon, Prince of Castelvetrano, Duke of Terranova, Marquis d'Avola, Earl of Burgeto, great Admiral, and Grand Constable of Sicily, to Milan Governor and Captain General of His Catholic Majesty in Italy, fully informed of the intolerable misery in which this city is vivuta and lives in Milan, on account of good and vagabonds, issue a call against them. Diffin all those states and be included in this notice, and having to feel good and vagabonds ... which, being foreigners or the country, did not exercise any, or having, they do not ... but, without pay, or even with it, they rely to some knight or gentleman, or official dealer ... back to him and please, or indeed, as can be expected to tend to other dangers ... To all these orders, within six days, they have to vacate the country, orders the jail to 'draft-dodgers, and gives justice to all ufiziali the most strangely large and undefined power, to execute the order. But the following year, April 12, said seeing the Lord, however, that this city is full of these good ... returned to live like before they lived, not at all changed their costume, nor diminished the number, give out another cry, even more vigorous and remarkable, in which, among other orders, provides: That any person
, so this City, as a foreigner, that two witnesses will consist shall be held, and widely reputed for good, et having that name, although he did not experience any crime ... this one's good reputation, no other indizj, may by that court and each of them be put to the rope et al torment, to process information ... et albeit not confess any crime, however, is sent to the galley, for that period, for the sole opinion and good name, as above. All this and more that you leave, because His Excellency is determined to want to be obeyed by everyone.
When we heard words of a man so much, so valiant and safe, and accompanied by such orders, is a strong desire to believe that the only roar of them, all good to have disappeared forever. But the testimony of a man no less authoritative, no less with names, forcing us to believe just the opposite. This is the illustrious and HE Mr. Juan Fernandez de Velasco, Constable of Castile, Maid greater than Her Majesty, Duke of the City of Frias, Count of Haro and Castelnovo, Lord of the House of Velasco, and that of the seven Infants of Lara, Governor of Milan, etc.. On 5 June of 1593, he also fully informed of the damage and ruins Siena ... the good and vagabonds, and the bad effect that this kind of person, is against the public good, and in a disappointment of Justice, telling them again that within the period of six days, they sbrattare in the country, repeating very nearly the same requirements and threats of his predecessor. On May 23, then the year 1598, informed, with no little sorrow of his soul, that ... any more in this city and State is growing the number of these men (good and tramps), nor of them, day and night, you hear that another injury dates lie in wait, murder and robbery and every other quality of offenses to which make it easier, they confide to be helped by good leaders and their supporters ... again requires the same remedies, by increasing the dose, as still used in stubborn diseases. Everyone, therefore, concludes then, you look onninamente contravene any part of the cries This, because, instead of proving the clemency of his Excellency, the penalty try, and his wrath ... being resolved and determined that this is the last and peremptory admonition.
But it was not of this opinion the Illustrious and Excellent Lord, Mr. Don Pedro Enriquez de Acevedo, Count of Fuentes, Captain and Governor of the State of Milan was not of this opinion, and for good reason. Fully informed of the poverty that lives in this City and State by reason of the large number of good that abounds in it ... and resolved to completely eradicate seed so pernicious, it gives out on 5 December, 1600, a new cry also full of severe imposition, with firm proposing that, with all severity, and without hope of remission, onninamente be executed.
We must, however, believe that we do not put all that with good will that could be used in the order cabals, and the enemies to excite his great enemy Henry IV, since, for this part, as history attests that king was able to arm against the Duke of Savoy, who did lose most of a city, how could conspire to make the Duke of Biron, who did lose his head, but, as regards this suit as pernicious de 'good, it is certain that it continued to germinate on 22 September of 1612. On that day the Illustrious and Excellent Lord, Don Juan de Mendoza, Marquis de la Hynojosa, etc Gentleman., Governor etc. he thought seriously to eradicate it. To this effect, and sent to Marco Tullio Pandolfo Malatesta, printers Royalists Chambers, the usual cries, corrected and enhanced, because the press to extermination of 'good. But they still lived to receive, on 24 December, the year 1618, the same shots dall'Illustrissimo and strongest and most Excellent Lord, Mr. Don Gomez Suarez de Figueroa, Duke of Feria, etc., Governor etc. However, since they have not even the dead ones, the most Illustrious and Excellent Lord, Mr. Gonzalo Fernandez de Cordova, under whose government the walk happened Abbondio Don, had been forced to ricorreggere and republish the usual cries against the good , day 5 October of 1627, one year, one month and two days before that memorable event.
Nor was this the last publication, but we do not believe the rear having to make mention, as something that comes from the period of our history. As we will mention only one of 13 February of 1632, in which the Illustrious and Excellent Lord, el Duque de Feria, for the second time governor, warns us that the greatest wickedness proceed from what they call good. This is enough to make sure that in time we are dealing with, was of 'good though.
That the two described above were there to wait for somebody, it was too obvious, but what was most displeased at having to don Abbondio notice, for certain acts, that he had expected. Because, as it appeared, those s'eran look on his face, raising his head with a movement from which one could see at once that both had said: he is the man what he was astride had got up, pulling his leg on the road, the other had detached from the wall, and both set off the meeting. He always keeping his breviary open before him, as if it read, drove up the look, inspired by the movements of people, and, seeing him be your meeting, was suddenly attacked by a thousand thoughts. Quickly once asked himself whether, between the good and him, there was some off the road, right or left, and he remembered no right away. He made a quick examination if he had sinned against some powerful, vengeful against some, but even in that trouble, the witness of conscience assured him somewhat comforting: the good, however, approached, looking him straight. He put his index and middle fingers of his left hand in the collar, as if to mend, and, turning two fingers around the neck, while his face turned backward, twisting her mouth together, and looking with one eye, since where he could, if someone came, but saw no one. He glanced, over the low wall, it 'fields: no, another more modest on the road before, and none except the good. What to do? back, was not quick enough to give it legs, was the same that is, inseguitemi, or worse. Not being able to dodge the danger, I ran, because the moments of uncertainty, then were so painful for him, who wanted nothing more than an abbreviation. He quickened his pace, he recited a verse in a louder voice, he composed his face to all that peace and laughter as he could, made every effort to bring a smile when he found himself in front of the two gentlemen, "he said mentally, we have, and stopped on two feet.
- Mr nice, - said one of those 'two, plant the eyes in the face.
- What do you charge? - Don Abbondio immediately answered, lifting her from the book, which was left wide open in his hands, as upon a lectern.
- Do you intend, - Continued the other, with the angry and threatening act of one who takes his lower sull'intraprendere a villainy, - she plans to marry tomorrow Tramaglino Renzo and Lucia Mondella!
- That ... - Replied, his voice quivering, Don Abbondio: - ie. Gentlemen are men of the world, and they know how these matters. The poor curate has nothing to do: make their mess together, and then ... and then, come to us, as giving in to a bank shalt recover, and we ... we are the servants of the municipality.
- Well, - said the bravo, the ear, but in a solemn tone of command, - that marriage is not to do, not tomorrow, not ever.
- But, gentlemen, - said Don Abbondio meek and gentle with the voice of someone who wants to persuade an impatient - but, gentlemen, they will deign to put them 'my shoes. If it were up to me ... vedon good that comes to me I do not anything in his pocket ...
- Come, - interrupted the good - if it had to decide to talk, she would put us in a sack. We do not know, We want to hear or find out more. Man warned ... c'intende her.
- But these gentlemen are too righteous, too reasonable ...
- But - this time broke another companion, who had not spoken since then - but the marriage will not be made, o. .. - And here a good blasphemy - or who will not regret it, because they do not have time, e. .. - Another blasphemy.
- Hush, hush, - resumed the first speaker: - The curate is a man who knows the world live, and we are honest, that We do not want to hurt him, provided they have legal proceedings. Curate, the illustrious Don Rodrigo our master the reveres dearly.
This name was in the mind of Don abound, as in a time of strong night, a flash that lights up momentarily confused and objects, and heightens the terror. He, as if by instinct, a grand'inchino, and said - if I knew suggest ...
- Oh! to suggest that she knows Latin! - Again interrupted the good, with a laugh between the vulgar and vicious. - She touches. And above all, do not let word get out about this warning that we gave for his own good, otherwise ... um ... would do the same that this marriage. Via, which means that anybody tells you his name all'illustrissimo Don Rodrigo?
- My respect ...
- Explain better!
-... Willing ... Always willing to obey -. And uttering these words, did not even know if he made a promise, or a compliment. I took the good, or mostraron to take them to mean more serious.
- Very good, and good night, sir, - said one of them, actually leaving his companion. Don abundance, which, moments before he would give an eye for iscansarli, then he wanted to prolong the conversation and negotiations. - Gentlemen ... - He began, closing the book with both hands, but ones, without hearing him, took the road dond'era he came, and went away, singing a canzonaccia I do not want to transcribe. Poor Don Abbondio remained a moment with his mouth open, like enchanted, then took one of the two streets leading to his house, barely putting forward one leg after the other, which seemed aggranchiate. Same as within, shall be understood better when we have said something of his nature, and de 'days when he was fated to live. Don
Abbondio (the player he's already well-informed) was not born with a heart of a lion. But, since 'its first year, he had to understand that the worst conditions, this' time, was that of an animal without claws and fangs, and yet did not feel inclination of being devoured. The power law did not protect any account of the quiet man, harmless, and that he had no other means to frighten others. Not that lacked laws and penalties against private violence. The laws even flood, the crimes were enumerated, and detailed, with minute prolixity, penalties, and wildly exorbitant, if not sufficient, to increase, almost every case, at the discretion of the legislature itself and a hundred performers, and procedures, designed only to free the court from anything that could be his is unable to utter a sentence: the glimpses that we have given the outcry against the good, there are a small but faithful wise. Even so, in fact largely on account of this, those proclamations, republished and strengthened governance in government, no other use but to demonstrate the impotence of highfalutin 'authors, or, if producevan some immediate effect, was mainly for those who add many harassment the peaceful and weak already suffering from 'disruptive, and the increase of violence and cunning of them. Impunity was organized, and had roots that the proclamations did not touch, or could not smove. These were day-care centers, such privileges of certain classes, in part recognized by legal force, partly tolerated with sullen silence, or challenged with useless protests, but in fact supported and defended by those classes, with activities of interest, and with jealous pique. Now, quest'impunità threatened and insulted, but not destroyed by proclamations, was of course, to any threat, and every insult, use new inventions and new efforts to preserve itself. So in effect happened, and the appearance of edicts aimed at the violent collapse, they tried their strength in the real new media most appropriate to continue to do so that the proclamations were to prohibit. Potevan well jam them at every step, and harass the good-natured man, who was without strength and without its protection, because, with the goal of having every man under his hand, to prevent or punish any crime, subjecting every move of the private the arbitrary will of performers of all kinds. But who, before committing the crime had taken his measures in time to take refuge in a convent, a palace, where the policemen would not have dared set foot, and who, without further precautions, wearing a livery that commitment to uphold the vanity and interest of a powerful family, of a whole class, he was free in its operations, and could laugh at all this din of the cries. Of those same deputies who were to execute them, some by birth belonged to the privileged part, depend on it for some customers, the ones and others, for education, self-interest, by custom, by imitation, they had embraced the highs and would have been very careful from offending, for the sake of a piece of paper stuck on the corners. Men then in charge of the immediate, when they were enterprising as heroes, as obedient monks, and ready to sacrifice themselves as martyrs, but they would not have come at the end, com'eran lower number than that it was subject, and a large probability of being abandoned by those who, in the abstract, as it were, in theory, require them to operate. But besides that, they were typically de 'most despicable villains and actors of their time was required to charge their vile even by those who fear they could have, and their way a curse. It was therefore quite natural that they, instead of risking, even to cast life in a desperate enterprise, selling their inaction, or their complicity with the powerful, and reserves the right to exercise their authority and cursed the force had also, on those occasions where there was no danger; nell'opprimer that is, men and harass peaceful and defenseless.
The man who wants to offend, or fear, every moment, of being offended, of course, look for allies and friends. So it was, in this' time, reach a maximum point, the tendency of individuals to stay connected in classes, to train new ones, and to delivering the most power of each one to which he belonged. The clergy watched that support and extend its immunity, the nobility of its privileges, its military exemptions. The merchants, artisans and craftsmen were enlisted in in fraternities, the jurists formed a league, the doctors themselves a corporation. Each of these little oligarchies had its own special force and, in each of the individual was used for the benefit of itself, a proportion of his authority and his dexterity, the united forces of many. The more honest you valevan of this advantage only in defense, took advantage of the astute and troublemakers, for carrying out rascality, to which their personal means would not be sufficient, and to ensure the impunity. The forces, however, these various alloys were very uneven, and, in the main campaign, the wealthy noble and violent, with around a bevy of good, and a population of farmers accustomed to family tradition, and involved in, or forced to be looked upon almost as subjects and soldiers of the master, exercising a power, to which hardly any fraction of a league there would have been able to resist.
Our abundance is not noble, not rich, still less brave, he had noticed then, almost touching the first years of discretion, to be in that society, like a pot of cooked earth, forced to travel with many vessels of iron. He therefore, very willingly, to obey parents, who wanted him as a priest. To tell the truth, he had not done much thought to the obligations and noble aims of the ministry to which he devoted himself: procure a living with some ease, and get into a class revered and strong, two had seemed more than enough reasons for that choice. But a class does not protect any one individual, not sure which to a certain point: not exempt him from getting his particular system. Don Abbondio, it continuously absorbed 'thoughts of their own quiet, did not care of this' benefits, which did need to get a lot of work, or run the risk of a little. His system was mainly on the shelves all the odds, and in the sale, those who could not avoid. Unarmed neutrality in all wars that broke out around him from contention, then frequent, among the clergy and secular mayor, between military and civilian, between noble and noble, to the issues between two peasants, born of a word, and decided with fists or with knives. If it was absolutely forced to take part between two contenders, was with the strongest, but always in the rear, and procuring another to show that he had not voluntarily enemy that seemed to say, but because you have not been able to be you the strongest? I would have put me on your side. Staying away from 'bullies, disguising their soverchierie fleeting and capricious, with corresponding submission to those who were intent on more serious and more thoughtful, compelling, by force of bows and jovial than even the most surly and contemptuous , to give him a smile, when The meetings the street, the poor man had managed to pass six decades, no big storms.
It is not that he had his bit 'of bile in the body, and that continuous exercise patience, that so often lead to other reason, this' many bitter pills swallowed in silence, had embittered him to sign that, if had not, from time to time, been able to give it some 'relief, his health certainly suffered n'avrebbe. But since then finally the world were there, and near him, he knew very well for people incapable of hurting, so he could vent some time with those long repressed the evil spirits, extricate himself and the desire to be a bit 'fantastic, and shouting in the wrong. It was then a rigid censor regolavan of men who do not like him, but when the censorship could be exercised without any even distant danger. The beat was at least a reckless, the murdered man had always been murky. Who, he set to sustain its case against a powerful, remained with his head broke, don Abbondio could always find some wrong, what is not difficult, because the right and wrong is not dividon never cut so sharply, that each party has only of one or the other. Above all things, this declaimed against 'his brother who, at their own risk, prendevan parts of a weak and oppressed, against a powerful overwhelmed. This is called a buy gl'impicci in cash, a desire to raddirizzar legs dogs, also said sternly, which was a mix of things profane, to the detriment of the dignity of the sacred ministry. And against such preaching, but always eye to eye, or in a small circle, with much more vehemence, as they were known to be aggrieved by the aliens, in which touch them personally. He was then one of his favorite sentence, by which sealed always talk about these matters: that a gentleman, who is watching him, and it is' his shoes, do not ever accadon unpleasant encounters.
think now my twenty-five readers had to make that impression on the soul of the poor, the one who has told you. The terror of this' visacci and those bad words, the threat of a gentleman known not to threaten in vain, a system of a quiet life, which had cost him so many years of study and patience, puzzled at one point, and a step from which you could not see how to get out: all those tumultuous thoughts were buzzing in the head down Don Abbondio. "Renzo If you could send in peace with a hell no, way, but want reason, and what I have to answer him, for heaven's sake? And, and, and, he also is a head: a lamb if no one touches but if anyone wants to contradict ... hee! And then, and then lost behind that Lucy, as in love ... boy, who, not knowing what to do, fall in love, They want to get married and do not think about anything else; not take charge of 'troubles in putting a poor gentleman. Oh dear! see if those two fool dovevan own tears on my way, and take it with me! What have I to do? It is I who want to marry? Why I am not quite gone to talk ... Oh you see a little: much is my fate, that things about me Let them always in mind a time after the event. If I had thought of suggesting to them that they were going to take their embassy ... "But at this point, he realized that the regret of not having been a director and co-worker of iniquity it was too unfair, and turned all the anger of 'His thoughts were against other one so that took away his peace. He knew that Don Rodrigo of view and fame, nor had he ever had to do with him, but touching the chest with his chin, and the earth with the tip of his hat, the few times that he had met on the street. It had occurred to defend, in more than one occasion, the reputation of that gentleman, against those who, in a low voice, sighing, and looking up at the sky, cursing the fact some of his: he said that it was a hundred times respectable gentleman. But at that moment he gave him his heart all these 'titles that had never heard applied by others, without breaking fast with a oibò. Coupling between the tumult of those thoughts, the door of his house, which was at the bottom of the village, quickly put the key in the lock, which already held in his hand, opened it, entered, closed it carefully, and, anxious to be in a trusted company, now called: - Perpetua! Perpetua! -, Going well into the living room, where it must have certainly set the table for dinner. Perpetua was as if everyone fully realize the servant of Don Abbondio: loyal and faithful servant, who knew how to obey and command, according to the occasion, time to tolerate the mutterings and fantasticaggini master, and make them endure their time , changing into that every day more often, from which he had passed the age of forty Synod, being unmarried, having refused to all parties that were offered, as she put it, or because they never found a dog that wanted, they said as her friends.
- I come, - said, putting on the table, the site normally, the flask of wine, a favorite of Don Abbondio, and moved slowly, but had not yet reached the threshold of the room, he came in with a step so closely linked, with a look so overshadowed with a face so distorted, that there would not even need the expert eye of Perpetua soon be shown whether at first sight that something extraordinary had happened really.
- Mercy! What did you, sir?
- Nothing, nothing, - said Don Abbondio, letting go of all panting on his chair.
- How, nothing? He wants to give to understand me? so ugly it is? Some great event took place.
- Oh, for heaven's sake! When I say nothing, or nothing, or is it something I can not say.
- What can not even tell me? Who will take care of your health? Who will give an opinion ...?
- Alas! be quiet and not make ready another: Give me a glass of my wine.
- And she will support that has nothing! - Perpetua said, filling his glass, and then holding it in his hand, as if he would give that award was so confident that you wait.
- dates here given here, - said Don Abbondio, taking the glass, his hand is not steady, and then by voting in a hurry, like a medicine.
- Will I then be forced here and there of asking what happened to my master? - Said Perpetua, standing before him, his hands thrown back on her hips, elbows and pinned in front, staring, as if to suck the secret from her eyes.
- For God's sake! Do not gossip, do not make noises: it goes ... it's life!
- Life!
- Life.
- You are aware that every time something told me frankly, in confidence, I never ...
- Brava! as if ...
Perpetua perceived to have touched a wrong button, so, immediately changing the tone, - master, - he said, voice full of emotion and commotion, - I have always been the loyal, and if now I want to know is to hurry, because I would be able to help, give good advice, lift the soul ... The fact is that Don
Abbondio Had a great desire to be relieved of his painful secret, to know how much he had Perpetua, whence, after having rejected the increasingly weak new and more pressing assault her, after having done more than once swear not breathe, at last, with many suspensions, with many, alas, told her the miserable case. When it came to the terrible name of the client, Perpetua proferisse need a new and more solemn oath and don Abbondio, pronouncing the name, tipped back in his chair, with a deep sigh, raising his hands, set in place to control and supplication, and saying - for heaven's sake!
- Its! - Perpetua said. - Oh, what a rascal! oh that overwhelmed! oh what a man with no fear of God!
- Want to be silent? or you want to ruin it all?
- Oh! we are only here that no one can hear us. But how will, poor sir?
- Oh you see, - said Don Abbondio, peevish voice: - you see that she give good advice I guess! Is to ask how I, as I will, as if she nell'impiccio, it was my turn to levarnela.
- Ma! well I would have to give my poor opinion, but then ...
- But then, we hear.
- My opinion is that since everyone says that our archbishop is a holy man, and a man's wrist, and who is not afraid of anyone, and when it can do star to a duty of these bullies, to support a nice, overjoyed us, I would say, and say that she wrote a beautiful letter, informing him as qualmente ...
- Want to be silent? you remain silent? Son Codest advice to give to a poor man? When I had touched a shot in the back, God forbid! Archbishop would stand me?
- Eh! The gunshots are not given away like confetti: and God help us if these dogs were to bite every time they bark! And I've always seen that those who can show their teeth, and get estimates, it takes respect, and, precisely because she never wants to tell his reason, we are reduced to a sign that all are, licensed, a. ..
- Want to be silent?
- I am silent now; But it is certain that, when the world realizes that one, always, in every meeting, is ready to lower the ...
- Want to be silent? It is now time to say Codest nonsense?
- Simply: we think the night, but while it begins to get hurt by him, to ruin his health, eat a bite.
- I'll think about it, - said, grumbling, Don Abbondio: - sure, I'll think about it, I like to think I - and got up and continued: - I will not take nothing, nothing, I have no desire, I know too ' I think that it's up to me. But! would happen to the precisely to me.
- down to send at least this one dropped, - said Perpetua out the wine. - You know, this always puts the stomach.
- Eh! Do not bother, it takes something else, we want more. So saying he took the lamp, and, still grumbling: - a small trifle! to a gentleman like me! com'andrà and tomorrow? - And similar lamentations, walked in the room to climb. Arrived on the threshold, he turned back towards Perpetua, put his finger over his mouth, he said, with slow and solemn tone: - For God's sake! - And disappeared.
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