Santobono

He had been well acquainted with Santobono in the years when he had spent the summer at

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It was related that Sanguinetti had once already extricated Santobono from a nasty difficulty: the priest having one day caught a marauding urchin in the act of climbing his wall, had beaten the little fellow with such severity that he had ultimately died of it.

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Born at Nemi, in the core of a fierce district, Santobono belonged to a violent family, and his eldest brother had died of a stab.

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Santobono gazed at him in real stupefaction, unable to understand that a prince, an all-powerful cardinal, should be influenced by such petty scruples, when the entire question was a mere knife thrust, the most commonplace and frequent of incidents in the yet wild land of the old

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With these words Santobono finally disappeared, and the Cardinal returned to Pierre, who also bowed preparatory to taking his leave.

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Santobono went off backwards, his big bony figure bending double with repeated genuflections.

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This one, Santobono, was not without education; he knew a little theology and

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Santobono at once bent his knees and kissed the Cardinal's ring, but with hasty unconcern, as though only some ordinary piece of civility were in question.

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Santobono spoke truly: his fig-tree was renowned throughout the district.

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Sanguinetti of counting Santobono among his clients.

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