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Identifier: countryofringb00trev (find matches)
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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r, but the bloody deed was done, althoughlater on Pasquini boasted that he had inflicted four orfive additional wounds upon Pompilia in the back. Thebrave Pasquini seemingly wished it to be known thathe had done something to earn his money. Guido now called upon the two to make sure thathis wife was dead; so one of them, probably the heroicPasquini, lifted her off the ground by her hair, and thendropped her, so that she fell with her head on the bodyof old Pietro, who was now quite still. Once more all was silent, and in the pause Guidowould glance round the familiar room and recall thetime when he first met Pompilia there. Then steppingover the three bodies that lay in his way, and giving avicious kick at Violante as he passed, he stepped outinto the street to join his companions. The work had been well accomplished, except intwo particulars. In their haste one of the murderershad left his coat in the house, while Guido, in gropingfor his wife beneath the bed, had dropped his cap. 72
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