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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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Subject to satisfy that hate, his wife. He might have turned her out of doors, as so manyof his friends advised, but he determined, as he says, to 11 keep the puppet of my foes—Her voice that lisps me back their curse—her eyeThey lend their leer of triumph to—her lipI touch and taste their very filth upon. Moreover, Count Guido had another scheme inview. He was determined to revenge himself uponthe crafty Comparini and, at the same time, to blastwith his detestation that mongrel brat his wife.Viper though she was, she was young, pretty andunsuspecting. Although she rilled him only withvapid disgust and was no more than a nullity infemale shape, there were younger men who wouldthink her fascinating. The course to pursue wasobvious. 11 What if the girl-wife, tortured with due care,Should take, as though spontaneously, the roadIt were impolitic to thrust her on ?If, goaded, she broke out in full revolt,Followed her parents i the face o the world,Branded as runaway not castaway,272
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97.—A STREET IN CASTELNUOVO. Guido Self-sentenced and self-punished in the act ?So should the loathed form and detested faceLaunch themselves into hell and there be lostWhile he look oer the brink with folded arms. Guido Franceschinis scheme, however, did notsucceed in the way he intended. His wife, it wastrue, had run away, but she was not thereby launchedinto hell, so that he was denied the delight of lookingover the brink of the pit to watch her writhings. TheComparini were victorious again. Guido had lost thedowry ; he had lost his wife ; he could not even say,Mine she is if I please wring her neck. She wassafe from neck-wringing with her foster parents inRome, in the very house in the Via Vittoria where hehad first seen her. He sums up his position very graphically in thefollowing passage from the speech he made before thetribunal in his own defence : I am irremediably beaten here—The gross illiterate vulgar couple—bah !Why, they have measured forces, mastered mine,Made me

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