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Title: The country of The ring and the book
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Treves, Frederick, Sir, 1853-1923
Subjects: Browning, Robert, 1812-1889
Publisher: London : Cassell
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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hed by her. Her last thought, if she thought atall, was of the house in the Via Vittoria, which was buttwo short hours away across the downs, and her lastsense, unless her drowsiness had numbed it, would tellher that the air rustling at the open window blew fromoff the Campagna of Rome. Caponsacchi was not long by her side, for he mustneed see that all was prepared for the last stage ofthe momentous journey. As the dawn began to break—and here in May it would be light enough to see byfour—he ordered the horses to be put in and thecarriage made ready for the traverse of the last fewmiles that separated them from the much-desiredcity. In less than half an hour they would start,while long before the sun had risen above the MontiSabini they would see the domes and pinnacles ofRome. Just as the moment had arrived to rouse Pompiliathere came a sound of footsteps on the road, and inthe dim light of the dawn the priest saw Count GuidoFranceschini coming towards him with a posse of men. 48
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19.—CHURCH OF THE AGONIZZANTI, ROME,Where Guido received the Sacrament on his way to execution. The Scene at Castelnuovo The tiny town of Castelnuovo lies a little off the mainroad. It was from the town that Guido came. Hehad pursued the two on horseback, but he had nointention of confronting Caponsacchi alone. Cowardas he was he knew the priest too well for that. Hedid not dash up to the inn on a steaming horse andthrow himself from the saddle sword in hand. On thecontrary, he crept cautiously up to the house on foot.He had found that the two he sought were at the inn,so he had slunk off to the town, had awakened themagistrate and had come back with a party of suchpolice as the little place afforded. It was neither aheroic nor a dramatic entry. It is to be gathered—although the evidence is conflicting—that both Guidoand the canon were armed with a small weapon knownas a travelling sword. Picture them as they face one another in the dimroad, how Guido shrinks before the gaze of

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