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A SIREN
By Thomas Adolphus Trollope
CONTENTS
BOOK I Ash Wednesday Morning CHAPTER I The Last Night of Carnival II Apollo Vindex III St. Apollinare in Classe IV Father Fabiano V "The Hours passed, and still she came not" VI Gigia's Opinion VII An Attorney-at-Law in the Papal States VIII Lost in the Forest IX "Passa la bella Donna e par che dorma"
BOOK II Four Months Before That Ash Wednesday Morning CHAPTER I How the Good News came to Ravenna II The Marchese Lamberto di Castelmare III The Impresario's Report IV Paolina Foscarelli V Rivalry VI The Beginning of Trouble VII The Teaching of a Great Love VIII A Change in the Situation IX Uncle and Nephew X The Coutessa Violante XI The Cardinal's Reception, and the Marchese's Ball XII The Arrival of the "Diva"
BOOK III "Sirenum Pocula" CHAPTER I "Diva Potens" II An Adopted Father and an Adopted Daughter III "Armed at All Points" IV Throwing the Line V After-thoughts VI At the Circolo VII Extremes Meet VIII The Diva shows her Cards IX One Struggle more
BOOK IV The Last Days of the Carnival
CHAPTER I In the Cardinal's Chapel II The Corso III "La Sonnambula" IV The Marchese Lamberto's Correspondence V Bianca at Home VI Paolina at Home VII Two Interviews VIII A Carnival Reception IX Paolina's Return to the City
BOOK V Who Did The Deed? CHAPTER I At the City Gate II Suspicion III Guilty or Not Guilty? IV The Marchese hears the Ill News V Doubts and Possibilities VI At the Circolo again VII A Prison Visit VIII Signor Giovacchino Fortini at Home IX The Post-Mortem Examination X Public Opinion XI In Father Fabiano's Cell XII The Case against Paolina
BOOK VI Poena Pede Claudo CHAPTER I Signor Fortini receives the Signora Steno in his Studio II Was it Paolina after all? III Could it have been the Aged Friar? IV What Ravenna thought of it V "Miserrimus" VI The Trial VII The Friar's Testimony VIII The Truth! IX Conclusion
A SIREN
By Thomas Adolphus Trollope
BOOK I
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: A Siren by Thomas Adolphus Trollope
- 2: By a ball at the Circolo dei Nobili
- 3: The Marchese Lamberto was at the ball
- 4: In consequence of the Marchese Lamberto not dancing
- 5: There is nothing like our Pineta
- 6: A very plausible reason for our projected tete a tete
- 7: The Conte Leandro was not in charity with all men
- 8: For though the Marchese was no great card player
- 9: There the Conte Leandro found him
- 10: Said the Marchese under his breath
- 11: How he enjoyed that last dance
- 12: And she passed through the Porta Nuova
- 13: It is the venerable Basilica of St
- 14: CHAPTER IVFather Fabiano Paolina entered hesitatingly
- 15: And discharge the duties assigned to the Padre Fabiano
- 16: Romauld knelt at the stroke of midnight
- 17: That is the Pineta we see from this window
- 18: Daughter of Jacopo and Paolina
- 19: You may get as far as the sea shore through the Pineta
- 20: As they were patent to the old monk
- 21: Old Orsola was as much a stranger in Ravenna
- 22: And endeavour to speak with the Marchesino
- 23: And Signora Orsola was fain to take the porter's advice
- 24: And the Angelus was duly rung
- 25: He betook himself again to the altar of St
- 26: Grumbled Quinto discontentedly
- 27: So they walked together to the Palazzo Castelmare
- 28: For three generations also the Fortini
- 29: That there was situated the Studio Fortini
- 30: But the Marchese di Castelmare was one of these few
- 31: Why are not those persiane shut
- 32: And the observant lawyer saw him
- 33: But Giovacchino Fortini will not
- 34: I am the legal adviser of the Marchese Ludovico
- 35: And Signor Fortini walked out towards the Circolo
- 36: So I have been told this very morning
- 37: At the ball we spoke of the Pineta
- 38: Exceedingly puzzled and annoyed
- 39: So they went together to the Porta Nuova
- 40: And the lawyer looked at Ludovico
- 41: You know at what point you entered the Pineta
- 42: Paolina Foscarelli he had never seen
- 43: The arrival of the Bologna diligence
- 44: By the help of Signor Leandro and Signora Marta
- 45: If he let the cat out of the bag to Signor Leandro
- 46: By the position he occupied at the Circolo all that evening
- 47: As for the jeunesse doree of the Circolo
- 48: Was always there to do the honours of the Palazzo Castelmare
- 49: Thoroughly at peace with itself
- 50: To wait upon the Marchese at the Palazzo Castelmare
- 51: While his cloak fell around his legs
- 52: He had just heard it from Signor Leandro
- 53: Continued little Signor Ercole
- 54: Saying that the Marchese Ludovico was not at the Circolo
- 55: That her name was Orsola Steno
- 56: But Paolina was beginning to do something
- 57: Accompanied by Signora Orsola Steno
- 58: Tell the Marchese I'll go directly
- 59: Were told to passare by the voice of Signora Orsola
- 60: Though almost as much at a loss as Paolina how to prevent it
- 61: Abominable coxcomb as that Ludovico is
- 62: Ludovico di Castelmare was a man
- 63: The Cardinal Legate of Ravenna was a Marliani
- 64: Old Orsola never made her appearance there
- 65: And though Paolina was such as she has been described
- 66: How Paolina felt in the matter
- 67: Whence did her unmistakable malaise
- 68: It is quite certain that Paolina
- 69: Again Paolina paused some minutes before replying
- 70: And drawing himself a little back from Paolina
- 71: At the thought of my being married to the Contessa Violante
- 72: He knew that Paolina had not only spoken truly
- 73: To which all Ravenna was looking forward
- 74: Even procrastination would not be without difficulty
- 75: You know how Paterini stands at Rome
- 76: The grandfather of the Lady Violante
- 77: The Contessa Marliani was inclined to devotion
- 78: Violante di Marliani reached her twenty third birthday
- 79: And as Violante grew towards womanhood
- 80: And among these by a certain Duca di San Sisto
- 81: And not Marchesa di Castelmare
- 82: At these pitiable attempts to keep up appearances
- 83: The brave old Contessa still kept her carriage
- 84: Or we shall have Leandro in full swing in another minute
- 85: Spoken by the Contessa and Ludovico
- 86: On getting into that of the Marchese
- 87: So the Marchese sacrificed himself
- 88: Then in another instant the travelling carriage
- 89: The Marchese Ludovico di Castelmare
- 90: And giving her hand to the Marchese
- 91: The result was that the Marchese
- 92: And Quinto Lalli was his real name
- 93: She looked upon Lalli as her father
- 94: Save by herself and old Quinto
- 95: And enchanting Divas may assist in such sowing
- 96: That Ludovico di Castelmare was
- 97: The Marchese Lamberto di Castelmare
- 98: The Duca di Lodi did not go off into the country
- 99: Laughed old Quinto Lalli with a quiet
- 100: If the Marchese Lamberto is as you describe him
- 101: Which Gigia knew well how to arrange
- 102: Gigia looked critically before she answered
- 103: And then the Diva waited patiently
- 104: Your servant The Marchese Lamberto
- 105: And you call yourself old Lamberto
- 106: The Marchese was an old man of the world
- 107: Said Gigia with a niaise simplicity
- 108: Say Ercole Stadione knows nothing about it
- 109: The Marchese could stand it no longer
- 110: Was very dreadful to the Marchese
- 111: The Marchese Lamberto was in love with her
- 112: The Marchese is a man any woman might love
- 113: And then the Marchese Lamberto was the Marchese Lamberto
- 114: Said the young Conte Beppo Farini
- 115: Ludovico has enough on his hands in quarter
- 116: The Marchese Lamberto sees her a good deal
- 117: Slinking out of the Palazzo Castelmare
- 118: Expecting a visit from the Marchese
- 119: But the Marchese made no proposals
- 120: CHAPTER VIIIThe Diva shows her Cards Ah
- 121: When I saw you the first time the first hour Bianca
- 122: A light came into the Marchese Lamberto's eyes
- 123: Bianca let her head fall on her bosom
- 124: Do not make me Marchesa di Castelmare
- 125: And then the Marchese left her
- 126: He wants to marry the Venetian
- 127: Was the Marchese Lamberto di Castelmare
- 128: Even without mentioning the fact that the Lady Violante
- 129: Repeated to her by Orsola Steno
- 130: Ludovico di Castelmare was bidden to love her
- 131: I know your friend the Marchese Lamberto well
- 132: Stealing a sidelong glance at Paolina
- 133: I don't know what to make of lo zio of late
- 134: Carnival dies amid one last hurrah
- 135: A grand gala reception at the Palazzo Castelmare
- 136: The Marchese Lamberto di Castelmare
- 137: The Marchese Lamberto looks knocked up with this carnival
- 138: But that in which the Marchese Lamberto sat
- 139: Were his nephew and the Conte Leandro
- 140: Really frightened at the manner of the Marchese
- 141: The Marchese Ludovico threw nothing to me
- 142: But the Marchese remained quiet in his corner
- 143: But she is not simpatica to me
- 144: Paolina thought nothing more than this
- 145: But her eyes thanked the Marchese Lamberto
- 146: As I need hardly tell your lordship
- 147: To offer to the Marchese Ludovico
- 148: All' Illmmo Sigr il Sigr Marchese Lamberto di Castelmare
- 149: That the Marchese di Castelmare did not know his own mind
- 150: Old Lalli was not partaking of her repast
- 151: That you were going to love the Marchese Lamberto
- 152: Make all safe with the Marchese Lamberto
- 153: Cannot be committed against the Signora Bianca Lalli
- 154: Why should the Signor Marchese be so unlikely to marry
- 155: Exactly as Bianca had intended he should be
- 156: The Marchese will be here in a minute or two
- 157: As his Paolina in some respects similar
- 158: To think of my little Paolina working
- 159: And the Conte Leandro is the Conte Leandro
- 160: And lo zio asked me to see to everything
- 161: The Marchese Lamberto is coming here presently
- 162: It may also be easily understood that the Marchese
- 163: To the Marchese it was a knell which
- 164: He was himself a good twenty years older than the Marchese
- 165: Said the Marchese to his companion
- 166: But the Conte Leandro had unfortunately sharp ears
- 167: And to silly rules of conventional gallantry
- 168: I think that this course is due to Paolina also
- 169: Ludovico and the Contessa then rose from their seats
- 170: Whom he had lost in the Pineta
- 171: By which the path the friar had indicated to Paolina passed
- 172: Intending to hasten home to Signora Orsola Steno
- 173: And if Violante had herself been guilty of no sins
- 174: A terrible and deadly sickness came over Ludovico
- 175: You must draw up a processo verbale
- 176: Ludovico stepped hurriedly forward from the doorpost
- 177: Killed that unfortunate woman in the Pineta
- 178: The argument of an innocent man
- 179: Whether you are guilty or not guilty
- 180: I was very anxious about Paolina
- 181: I took her there at her request to see the Pineta
- 182: Nobody will believe anything so monstrous
- 183: My Paolina very hard to leave you
- 184: Your lordship parted then from Signor Fortini
- 185: Asked the Commissary of Police
- 186: That plunder could not have been the object of the murderer
- 187: For the Marchese Lamberto was not a marrying man was
- 188: That this accursed folly of the Marchese Lamberto had caused
- 189: Was an old acquaintance of Signor Fortini
- 190: One Signorina Paolina Foscarelli
- 191: Which the Marchese had made to him
- 192: The Conte Leandro had the means of knowing
- 193: The girl was murdered in the Pineta this morning
- 194: That the Marchese Ludovico was in the Pineta with La Bianca
- 195: Saying that the Conte Leandro had returned
- 196: I will tell the Marchese of your kind intention
- 197: The Marchese di Castelmare clear himself
- 198: The lawyer was accosted by Niccolo the groom
- 199: And that was the power of the Marchese Lamberto himself
- 200: So much was clear from what the Marchese had said
- 201: Might not that outcry on Paolina
- 202: Who might have been the Conte Leandro
- 203: But Signor Fortini knew enough to feel very sure
- 204: Said the Conte Leandro Lombardoni
- 205: That the Marchese Lamberto was going to marry the girl
- 206: That the Marchese Ludovico has really committed this murder
- 207: It would kill the old Marchese as dead as a door nail
- 208: Can I be permitted to see the Marchese Ludovico
- 209: That there was a real generosity in her nature
- 210: I want you to see Fortini also
- 211: Of course Fortini has been with him
- 212: I owe you a thousand apologies
- 213: You say that this Paolina saw her lover with La Bianca
- 214: She saw Ludovico and La Bianca driving by in a bagarino
- 215: Know that the Signor Conte has been besieging
- 216: I had little doubt but that the Marchesino had
- 217: She had strongly insisted on that of Ludovico
- 218: But this fastening was now undone
- 219: That it must have been the Marchesino who did the deed
- 220: But hardly a round spot like that
- 221: The trace of a wound inflicted by a very fine needle
- 222: Is the special knowledge you speak of
- 223: To saunter in cafes or at the Circolo
- 224: Leandro arrested on suspicion of murder
- 225: And the Conte Leandro Lombardoni
- 226: The lawyer and the Commissary dismounted from the carriage
- 227: With a glance at the Commissary
- 228: On the coverlet upon his chest
- 229: It seemed both to Signor Fortini and to the Commissary
- 230: And from under the shadow of his cowl
- 231: The lawyer looked hard at the Commissary
- 232: He's an old man is Father Fabiano
- 233: Went in the direction of the Pineta
- 234: This Father Fabiano is a Venetian
- 235: Paolina Foscarelli was equally indubitably
- 236: In the case of the Conte Leandro
- 237: So Signora Orsola victoriously
- 238: And Signora Orsola took the Contessa Violante's advice
- 239: The Signorina Paolina Foscarelli
- 240: Almost shrieked poor Signora Orsola
- 241: And Paolina knew that she knew it
- 242: CHAPTER IIWas it Paolina after all
- 243: Signor Fortini determined to go and see his crony
- 244: The Marchese takes the girl into the wood
- 245: His interest in Paolina ties his tongue
- 246: If you had committed murder if I had committed murder
- 247: Has been the motive of this murder
- 248: Sufficed to show that it was not Paolina
- 249: That Paolina Foscarelli is guilty
- 250: The meaning of which phrase in Signor Fortini's mouth
- 251: The Marchese Lamberto has been hit from more sides than one
- 252: He absolutely refused to see anybody save Signor Fortini
- 253: The Marchese Lamberto was saved
- 254: Rather than see Paolina condemned as guilty
- 255: From what he had already seen of the Marchese
- 256: Reticence is impossible to them
- 257: And the Marchese shook as he spoke
- 258: The Marchese threw himself back in his deep easy chair
- 259: After visiting you by direction of the tribunal
- 260: Signor Marchese for any one in Ravenna
- 261: The padre Fabiano was on each occasion found in bed
- 262: Signor Fortini had in the meantime
- 263: Who were all of them old friends of Signor Fortini
- 264: A criminal court is in these days an open and public one
- 265: And the sneer may be joined in by those who
- 266: The new comer was a friar old Father Fabiano
- 267: Said the Procuratore solemnly and severely
- 268: As Fortini now well understood
- 269: The Signora Fortini departed this life
- 270: And rode furiously to the Pineta
- 271: What he saw as Ludovico and Bianca entered the forest
- 272: That the Marchese and Marchesa di Castelmare