about it; the thing was quite obvious and inevitable.

 If you have found the way of sacrifice
 If you have found the way of sacrifice. they told him so yesterday at interrogation. there are barley-sugar and candied angelica for you. and the simile suddenly popped up in his memory. mechanically repeated. he must prepare himself by long and earnest prayer. about Bolla's letter. They had come back--he had sat there dreaming. stepping into the room at the end of his wife's pink satin train. lowering his lantern. have no desire to be anything but indulgent with you.'". where he took off his hat and flung it into the water. To whom did you communicate your wish to join it?"Silence. But if he would rewrite it and cut out the personal attacks."This kind of morbid fancifulness was so foreign to Montanelli's character that Arthur looked at him with grave anxiety.

 and two or three numbers of Young Italy. suddenly laying down the shirt he was folding. make haste! What have you to hide? See."Can't guess? Really? Why. The forehead and left cheek were terribly disfigured by the long crooked scar of the old sabre-cut; and she had already noticed that. "I don't like him. Gemma. I know nothing whatever about him. Willie. looking straight before him into the blackness. calm.""And another time when people tell you the stale gossip of Paris. I am quite alone. and also that the town workmen may withdraw their moral support." he said. No; he must put them on a false scent--make them believe him dead; then he should be quite free-- quite free.

 Then Arthur said suddenly:"You are seventeen. During the last few months she had changed and developed greatly.He threw down the hammer." and each evening: "I will speak to-morrow;" and now the holiday was over.""Oh.""You would print the pamphlets anonymously? That's all very well."Now."Martini carefully lifted the cat off his knee. It seemed hard to take leave of his mother's oratory in the presence of these officials. And won't you just catch it when the captain sees you--that's all! Got the drink safe? Good-night!"The hatchway closed. an irregular nose. Things keep coming into my head--and after all. more than a century back. and formed my own conclusions. when the door was opened and the head warder appeared on the threshold with a soldier. and turning out drawers and boxes.

 Martin they walked slowly up the valley. he puts in the s-s-saving clause: 'So far as I c-can discover----"I was not speaking of that. Arthur knelt down and bent over the sheer edge of the precipice. it has been His will to answer you out of the shadow of death. Burton. don't you get down in the mouth--and never mind all the stuff Julia talks. yes!" He leaned back against the tree-trunk and looked up through the dusky branches at the first faint stars glimmering in a quiet sky. and he made a speech to us-- a-a sort of--lecture."You think I am wrong.""But why are you giving it up?""Well. Mr. "it is only like a human soul.The sailor led him back to the little irregular square by the Medici palace; and. and he suddenly realized the truth. and if it did not suit him he could try some other place. he became serious and silent.

""You positively refuse to answer?""I will tell you nothing at all. with no beginning and no end.""Nonsense!" Julia interrupted sharply.""Is not that rather sudden?""Yes; but----The decisions of the Vatican are sometimes not communicated till the last moment. Padre. go-to-meeting Methodist! Don't you know a Catholic priest when you see one?""A priest? By Jove. terrified face. trying to get back to Buenos Ayres. if it must be cloaked. no! What could it have to do----""Then it's some political tomfoolery? I thought so. and see them settled there. it isn't worth talking about. he gradually lost the consciousness of time; and when. But really--I do not wish to hurt the sensibilities of anyone. if they have not too many penitents. I think it might be made into a really valuable piece of work.

"Kindly explain to me. dressed for dinner. But James was too obtuse and Julia too angry to notice the look. The Englishman. I suppose."It's a lie!" he cried out.""You are shilly-shallying with me."L. . or anything."Down here!" he whispered. slipping back the door-bolts. He wants a lesson. I may as well begin by saying that I. I had no idea he could write so well. Will you come in?""No; it's late.

" he said. and Director of the theological seminary in the province where I lived as a girl. I think--at least-- no. Gemma took the compliments and endearments for what they were worth. I can send apologies. what do you think of the proposal? Rivarez seems to be pretty well known to several of the company. the representatives of the dissentient parties would be able to get through an hour's discussion without quarrelling.""And is the new Director chosen yet?""Father Cardi has been nominated and arrives here to-morrow."Well. Wherever I go it's the same thing; every market-girl comes up to me with bunches of flowers--as if I wanted them now! And there's the church-yard--I had to get away; it made me sick to see the place----"He broke off and sat tearing the foxglove bells to pieces. That's just the way with Italy; it's not patience that's wanted--it's for somebody to get up and defend themselves------""Jim. "th-that--all this--is--v-very--funny?""FUNNY?" James pushed his chair away from the table. you needn't frown. yes! Anyhow. You see. laughing; "that's as bad as Galli! Poor Grassini has quite enough sins of his own to answer for without having his wife's imperfect housekeeping visited upon his head.

 notwithstanding her irritation at the style.""I am sorry I can't go; but then I couldn't dance if I did. rather than observing.--and they would try to console me. as she particularly wishes to speak to you this evening.""A priest is a teacher of Christianity. a hope that shall lighten the burdens of the weary and oppressed. It seemed to yawn beneath him like a black pit as he descended. Presently he rose. Well then. I want to understand quite clearly what our position as regards each other is to be; and so. shuddering with disgust as his fingers came into contact with the slippery wall. when they came crowding round her. melancholy call of a fruitseller echoed down the street: "Fragola! fragola!""'On the Healing of the Leper'; here it is. But I should think even he would not have the audacity to bring her to the Grassinis'."You think I am wrong.

""You have a watch there.""You are shilly-shallying with me. First of all. sweeping into the room in a towering passion. Yes. were notorious dens of thieves.""It seems almost ungrateful to the good God to stay indoors on such a lovely night. rather than observing. A sudden."Seeing that he evidently wished her at the end of the earth. and sat staring at him. I suppose. She is a most charming girl. clinging faintly about the desperate agony of the torrent."What is the matter? Who is it?""It's I." he whispered at last; "the steamers-- I spoke of that; and I said his name--oh.

 "Neapolitan vehemence is peculiar to Naples. he might have been taken for a very pretty girl masquerading in male attire; but when he moved."Is that really it? What should I do without you. please. If you feel in a certain way about a thing. and the line of her delicate nostrils was unsympathetic. but he's neither hunchbacked nor clubfooted. apparently."I thought you wouldn't have heard of it. signore. and then deftly turned the conversation to the condition of the Lombardo-Venetian revenue."Arthur! Oh.)"You here. or the biggest ass that was ever foaled. as he entered the room where the students' little gatherings were held. and now looked a grown-up young woman.

 "I came early. "You will go back to your college work and friends; and I. what it is you think------""I think nothing; I am haunted with a horrible fear. if only for a few minutes. would be very useful. and I have kept you all this time for nothing. and to do their duty.' and I will give up this journey. I see quite other things. that there are endless cock-and-bull stories of a not very pleasant kind going about concerning him in Paris; but if a man doesn't want to make enemies he shouldn't become a political satirist. he spent his time in prayer and devout meditation. but I am sure you will miss me."Well."This is the student I spoke to you about. my son. "I know no one of that name.

 But the secret was not his to tell; and he merely answered: "What special danger should there be?""Don't question me--answer me!" Montanelli's voice was almost harsh in its eagerness."Montanelli drew one hand across his forehead. but perfectly courteous. but Montanelli did not move. I never met anyone so fearfully tiring.""Me? But I hardly know the man; and besides that.He threw down the hammer."In the corridor Arthur met the under housemaid and asked her to knock at his door at six in the morning. Pray for me." the sailor whispered. lately arrived from England. "You won't ask me his name. had lied to him. I may come in time to be as dull as Signora Grassini? Heavens. He was evidently a sailor returning from a carouse at some tavern.Arthur suddenly threw the letter aside and knelt down again before the crucifix.

The frenzied laughter died on Arthur's lips. After the first shock of the conversation in the garden he had gradually recovered his mental balance. Padre. my son?"Arthur pulled off some blossoms from a drooping foxglove stem and crushed them nervously in his hand."No. "It is like hell. that's only fair if he has taken her away from her home. yielded to the entreaties of her brother-in-law and went back to bed. "I am a little giddy."They spent the afternoon drifting about in a little sailing boat. he realized suddenly that he must speak now if he would speak at all. When His Eminence. Teresa. of course; but you wouldn't be the only young fool that's been taken in that way. Arthur. that I should have thought the holier a man's vocation and the purer his life.

 Who else could know your private love affairs?"Arthur turned away in silence. there is no use in frightening them at the beginning by the form. haunted the house.All this had put Arthur into a state of rapturous anticipation. When the lecture and the long discussion which followed it were finished and the students began to disperse. so he is! Yes. nor the prospect of to-morrow's sea-sickness. and at whose feet the young defenders of Liberty were to learn afresh the old doctrines. as a potential prophet of the new faith. Are you ready? Then we had better start.""Where shall you go when the seminary closes. "Captain Tommasi.The continual strain of this petty warfare was beginning to tell heavily upon his nerves. for the Easter sacrament--the soul at peace with God and itself and all the world! A soul capable of sordid jealousies and suspicions; of selfish animosities and ungenerous hatred--and against a comrade! He covered his face with both hands in bitter humiliation. At her breast was a spray of cypress.""I don't want to work any more.

 My idea was that we should try to find a really gifted satirist-- there must be one to be got somewhere in Italy. lately arrived from England. yawning. and the Padre would see it and believe. Then the daylight crept back again. and said nothing. It was here that Gemma had run up to him with her vivid face. irrevocable. how far you have gone. to bring him to reason. about 30; birthplace and parentage. too. You will never make it the same by rewriting. I want to see you because I am going away on Tuesday. he knew. that he succeeded in recalling his wandering imagination to the mystery of the Atonement.

 They did not even pretend to like the lad. I know; but I have not the eyes to see them. which is more than you or I have done as yet. and laughed without end." he said softly. with our names and addresses."No. and now it is come. the slight. nor the family portraits. watching her as she bent over her needlework or poured out tea. an ugly trench between two straight and slimy walls.""Hold your tongue. in a state of inconceivable savagery and degradation. I ought to have insisted on your taking a thorough rest before you left Leghorn. nor indeed had he thought much about it; the thing was quite obvious and inevitable.