The country of The ring and the book . far, for he wrote (after a hint, nodoubt) to the ever-mischiefful Paolo a letter, in which hesays that his brothers at Arezzo possessed the patienceof martyrs, that the poor child, as he fitly calls her,had been led into excesses by her parents, and that shenow detests even the memory of their existence. Heconcluded, in a fine outburst of imagery, by describingthe home at Arezzo as an utter quietude, and insigning his name, Vincenzo Marzi-Medici, wrote him-self down as one of the most ready and light-hearted ofthe many liars with whose utterances the Yell
The country of The ring and the book . far, for he wrote (after a hint, nodoubt) to the ever-mischiefful Paolo a letter, in which hesays that his brothers at Arezzo possessed the patienceof martyrs, that the poor child, as he fitly calls her,had been led into excesses by her parents, and that shenow detests even the memory of their existence. Heconcluded, in a fine outburst of imagery, by describingthe home at Arezzo as an utter quietude, and insigning his name, Vincenzo Marzi-Medici, wrote him-self down as one of the most ready and light-hearted ofthe many liars with whose utterances the Yellow Bookis concerned. Pompilia then sought the bishop of the city, and,indeed, ran to him twice for pity and protection, begginghim to send her to a convent. This prelate seems tohave adopted the bland attitude of a stage father, tohave patted her on the shoulder, and told her, withmany flatulent platitudes, to go home and be a goodwife. He seems to have been kind to her, in an oilyway, for he sent her home in his carriage, after he 36. Pompilia at Bay had, no doubt, wiped her wet cheeks, quieted her sob-bing, and tidied her hair under her wimple. In spiteof all this, Pompilia says in her deposition that thisdid no good. Pompilias third and final visit to the bishop isgraphically described by one Bartholomeo Albergotti,a gentleman of Arezzo, in a communication to SignorComparini. He writes that on the morning of the daybefore Palm Sunday the countess went to the churchto hear the preaching. It would seem that the quietof the place, the atmosphere of peace that filled it, to-gether with the drowsy scent of incense and the chantingof the choir, presented so intense a contrast with thedevil-haunted house to which she must return thatwhen the service was over she suddenly darted awayand rushed into the palace of the bishop. The bishop declined to give her audience; where-upon she took up her place at the head of the stairs,crouching down in the corner with her heaving shouldersagain
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