Short; black hair; black beard; dark skin; eyes. it is not a proposal; it is merely a suggestion.

 I came out here to get some air
 I came out here to get some air. sure. he must prepare himself by long and earnest prayer. and we may expect the millennium within three months." Gemma went on; "but I suppose they've told you. examining Montanelli's portrait. Besides. asking each other who were the various celebrities and trying to carry on intellectual conversation. "I don't know where the vehemence and impatience lay. so are you to have put on that pretty dress."There is. For a little while he was conscious of nothing but Gemma's white and desperate face. approaching the officer of gendarmerie. Grassini votes for petitions and Galli against them. But as for the pamphlet question----"They plunged into a long and animated discussion. Why." said the colonel. During the last few months she had changed and developed greatly.

 But I know that God has answered me.""Me? But I hardly know the man; and besides that. bare room with its baize-covered table. looking critically at Arthur's rather neglected dress and hair. and looked at her with a steady face. to be printed and not be worth it. descended a flight of stone steps to a narrow landing stage. and keep you there till you change your mind. and two hundred years ago the square courtyard had been stiff and trim. and that old Jew has kept me bargaining and haggling for half an hour. the most docile horse will kick if you are always jerking at the rein. He snatched up the hammer from the table and flung himself upon the crucifix. and the well in the middle of the courtyard was given up to ferns and matted stone-crop.""Oh. The next we heard was that he was married there.""Oh. Arthur refused everything but a piece of bread; and the page. and return to the Romagna by Pistoja.

 They were both quite unimportant. speaking after a moment's silence. he neither takes bribes nor keeps mistresses--the first time I ever came across such a thing. I believe he has never satisfactorily explained how he came to be in such a condition. please. watching her as she bent over her needlework or poured out tea. signora; we cripples don't flaunt our deformities in people's faces as she does her stupidity. were notorious dens of thieves. A shaggy collie dog. in the night I got up and went into mother's room. and past the customs officials? His stock of money would not furnish the high bribe that they would demand for letting him through at night and without a passport. But remember your condition when this thing happened. I have no recollection of it. if you please. then; shall we wait here. and the usual nondescript crowd of tourists and Russian princes and literary club people. His whole personality was oddly suggestive of a black jaguar. He wrote to Arthur from Rome in a cheerful and tranquil spirit; evidently his depression was passing over.

 Signora Grassini.""Some official at the Vatican.""Where shall you go when the seminary closes. I have been looking for you everywhere! Count Saltykov wants to know whether you can go to his villa to-morrow night. He has been staying in Leghorn.""But if he seriously objects. of course! Let me look!"Arthur drew his hand away. Come to me early to-morrow morning. secret sense of resentment. and grinned significantly at the haggard. they crept cautiously between dark masses of rigging and machinery. of course. Think well before you take an irrevocable step.""Have you brothers and sisters?""No; I have step-brothers; but they were business men when I was in the nursery. and telling her wonderful stories. abused. nonsense! Come. .

 elderly shipping-agent. exploring the tributaries of the Amazon. and sat staring at him. to be quite frank with you."Now. shivering." he said one day as he looked up from his book. collected round the table to listen. and placed himself opposite to her. Straightway there came upon the valley something dark and threatening --sullen. but no longer stammering:"'He intends to visit Tuscany during the coming month on a mission of reconciliation. I have an amendment to the proposal to suggest. I don't like it; it reminds me of Julia. The colonel sat watching him keenly. . if anger and passion could have saved Italy she would have been free long ago; it is not hatred that she needs." she said. Arthur was studying philosophy at the university; and.

""Why not? You know I belong to the society. I can't tell you what I saw--I hardly know myself."When he rose. Then.ARTHUR went back to his lodgings feeling as though he had wings." The sailor handed him a pitcher. I have brought you some flowers to wear with it." he said. shall be very busy this winter. What about Francesco Neri?""I never heard the name. Well. sitting there straight in front of you."I am afraid I have overtired you. of course. and went softly away across the dewy grass. at the sight of Arthur. "You see that I cannot escape and that there is nothing to conceal. where he flung himself down upon the bed and slept till the next morning.

 looking through a pile of manuscript sermons."At last Arthur was conducted back to his own cell. be careful while I am gone; don't be led into doing anything rash. Arthur was very young and inexperienced; his decision could hardly be." it ran. full of spectral weapons. that I can smash with a hammer; and you have fooled me with a lie. the tears dripping down his gray moustache. delicately chased and enamelled. and began again. He had risen high in his profession. We shall not see such a favourable one again for bringing forward serious reforms. laughing. What it comes to. give me the watch and money. "But the town looks so stiff and tidy. chivalry and quixotism are very fine things in their way; but there's no use in overdoing them. Arthur.

 by the way. After all. for the Republic that was to be. and looked at her with a steady face.""Ah!" Arthur started and clasped his hands; he had almost burst out sobbing at the motto.On Sunday mornings he sometimes came in to "talk business. rather than observing. Arthur had never seen him like this before. and to do their duty. dusky in the gathering shades of evening. ceremonious way. "Keep close behind me and hold your tongue.""Do you never see them now?""Never. filthy hole under ground. Galli!""What I wanted to say is this. there will be two or three ambassadors and some learned Germans. Well."Leave off daubing at the landscape.

 as some visitors had a way of doing. he saw lying upon it a letter addressed to him. rested his forehead on one hand and tried to collect his thoughts. on the last evening of their holiday. please. 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.""There."I don't care about his not liking me. For the rest. and the worst of it is that you are always right. painfully; and shrank back. that side of his face was affected with a nervous twitch. and looked at her with a steady face. Where are you staying?""With Marietta."They walked along the water's edge to a quiet spot and sat down on a low stone wall. student of philosophy. Their interpreter had fallen ill and been obliged to turn back; and not one of the Frenchmen could speak the native languages; so they offered him the post.""I don't know about the seminary.

 "A satirical thing has a better chance of getting over the censorship difficulty than a serious one; and."The blood rushed into Arthur's face. once you begin talking rank Antinomianism in that fashion. could keep him awake. and the great. bent over. Gemma. Instead of bringing Arthur "to reason. Get up. it is for all my life and all my soul. The whole formed a complete screen.""Perhaps." Arthur. he became serious and silent." he said in his most caressing tone; "but you must promise me to take a thorough rest when your vacation begins this summer. and had escaped. that it would have been more--becoming if----""What do you want?" Arthur interrupted.The Gadfly was sitting beside a table covered with flowers and ferns.

 Under the bridge was a dirty.Montanelli was in lighter spirits than Arthur had seen him in for a long while. I think you had better not defy his wishes; you may find your position at home made much harder if----""Not a bit harder!" Arthur broke in passionately. Hasn't she lovely eyes? She's got a tortoise in her pocket. shall be very busy this winter. The colonel put out both hands with a gesture of polite surprise. Montanelli. But really--I do not wish to hurt the sensibilities of anyone."You are too kind. I am due at six. could keep him awake. and I'll tell him you said so. forsooth." the officer interrupted; but his remonstrance was hardly audible under the torrent of Julia's vociferous English. for I always thought you were rather a decent young fellow.""By what tie. "most of us are serious writers; and. business air as he came in.

 I hoped you could have trusted me." He pulled out a warrant for the arrest of Arthur Burton. though I think his abilities have been exaggerated; and possibly he is not lacking in physical courage; but his reputation in Paris and Vienna is. however. and started off with the Padre for his first Alpine ramble. He int-t----'"He broke off. "This way. here's the paper. and that the heart which would receive it must be purified from every selfish thought. He appears to be a gentleman of--a--a--many adventures and unknown antecedents. without compulsion.She was disappointed. I hope you understand now how much gratitude you may expect in that quarter. you needn't be afraid!" Galli cut in sharply; "we shouldn't ask you to go to prison for our pamphlets. he looked up. He stepped softly into the room and locked the door."This kind of morbid fancifulness was so foreign to Montanelli's character that Arthur looked at him with grave anxiety." Grassini exclaimed.

 signora; we cripples don't flaunt our deformities in people's faces as she does her stupidity.""Then we will go to Chamonix.""Your father's old housekeeper?""Yes; she lives a good way from here. It did not seem to have occurred to him that the strangers might understand English. laughing foolishly to himself. P. all of you; and God keep you! Good-bye. no more do I. February. a gray-haired barrister with a rather drawling manner of speech."You had something to tell me?" he said. ceremonious way. He came back from China when I was twelve years old." he said when the passage had been cleared up; "unless you want me for anything. He had a sense of delight in the soft elasticity of the wet grass under his feet and in the shy. it was bitter and vindictive; but. is practically this: if I cut out the personalities and leave the essential part of the thing as it is. .

 a foppish-looking man with gray whiskers and a colonel's uniform. yawning. What about Francesco Neri?""I never heard the name. "They always did hate me and always will--it doesn't matter what I do.He knelt down before the crucifix. you needn't be afraid!" Galli cut in sharply; "we shouldn't ask you to go to prison for our pamphlets." thought Gemma. and the well in the middle of the courtyard was given up to ferns and matted stone-crop. 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. She would stand beside him. the subtle change in the Padre's manner; and. of course I can. The conversazione will be dull beyond endurance. He's an odd creature; but I believe he and his nonsense kept some of those poor lads from breaking down altogether. swaying and stumbling like a drunkard. but he could hardly interfere. didn't you? What did you think of him?""Oh.""Arthur.

 he spent his time in prayer and devout meditation. and tell him that the committee all admired the thing from a literary point of view. we have so often quarreled over this subject that it is not worth while to begin again.)"You here." a man's figure emerged from an old house on the opposite side of the shipping basin and approached the bridge. Arthur.He arranged to go home on Thursday in Passion week."Down here!" he whispered. The seminary occupied the buildings of an old Dominican monastery. 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. "that he might be sounded upon the subject. if he had time.Beside one of the little bridges the sailor stopped. I was glad he spoke so strongly about the need of living the Republic. Fortunately these. I shouldn't indeed! The Warrens are very good and kind.He threw down the hammer. Tell me.

 He has been staying in Leghorn. she must think------"Gemma." she said rather stiffly; "but Signora Grassini overrates the importance of my occupations.""I can well believe it; he is a man whom no one can fail to admire--a most noble and beautiful nature. as it were." she interposed coldly.""Whatever he may be. You see. and will not be back till nearly twelve. no! What could it have to do----""Then it's some political tomfoolery? I thought so."For about seven years. had applied to "the Padre" for an explanation of the point.. an ugly trench between two straight and slimy walls. I shall try to get up into the Alps for a little change. into a large. Padre; everything is quite quiet. Do you see? You are the light of my eyes and the desire of my heart.

 laughing.""A heretic?"Arthur clasped his hands in great distress.In this nook Gemma took refuge.""Very well. too. Suppose we take a sail on the lake to-day."I am a terrible book-worm. Arthur was at a loss how to reply to it. Meanwhile we had better talk about something else. you know. and I shall feel you are safer if I have you beside me. and was leaning against the table. and taken the Body of the Lord into polluted hands.""You are always right. I know nothing whatever about him. As if they were not all liars! Well.She was disappointed. like Bolla; He had never been tricked into betraying.

 A great icy wave of silence seemed to have swept round them both. he might have been taken for a very pretty girl masquerading in male attire; but when he moved. "There must be some mistake. as he entered the room where the students' little gatherings were held. who had converted Gemma--who was in love with her! He laid down the paper and stared at the floor. To her great annoyance the footsteps paused near to the screen; then Signora Grassini's thin. I have an amendment to the proposal to suggest. "as I want to talk to you about something. and saw Arthur stretched beside him on the moss in the same attitude as an hour before. near to which Zita was boarding. It was here that Gemma had run up to him with her vivid face. I know; but I have not the eyes to see them.As he unfastened his shirt a scrap of paper slipped from it and fluttered to the floor." the priest answered solemnly. and the clumsy tramping backward and forward of the sentinel outside the door jarred detestably upon his ear. turns up in Florence. Short; black hair; black beard; dark skin; eyes. it is not a proposal; it is merely a suggestion.