When the Professor's gate closed on Odo night was already falling andthe oil-lamp at the end of the arched passage-way shed its weak circleof light on the pavement. This light, as Odo emerged, fell on aretreating figure which resembled that of the blind beggar he had seencrouching on the steps of the Corpus Domini. He ran forward, but the manhurried across the little square and disappeared in the darkness. Odohad not seen his face; but though his dress was tattered1, and he leanedon a beggar's staff, something about his broad rolling back recalled thewell-filled outline of Cantapresto's cassock.
Sick at heart, Odo rambled2 on from one street to another, avoiding themore crowded quarters, and losing himself more than once in thedistricts near the river, where young gentlemen of his figure seldomshowed themselves unattended. The populace, however, was all abroad, andhe passed as unregarded as though his sombre thoughts had enveloped3 himin actual darkness.
It was late when at length he turned again into the Piazza4 Castello,which was brightly lit and still thronged5 with pleasure-seekers. As heapproached, the crowd divided to make way for three or four handsometravelling-carriages, preceded by linkmen and liveried out-riders andfollowed by a dozen mounted equerries. The people, evidently in thehumour to greet every incident of the streets as part of a show preparedfor their diversion, cheered lustily as the carriages dashed across thesquare; and Odo, turning to a man at his elbow, asked who thedistinguished visitors might be.
"Why, sir," said the other laughing, "I understand it is only anEmbassage from some neighbouring state; but when our good people are intheir Easter mood they are ready to take a mail-coach for Elijah'schariot and their wives' scolding for the Gift of Tongues."Odo spent a restless night face to face with his first humiliation8.
Though the girl's rebuff had cut him to the quick, it was the vision ofthe havoc9 his folly10 had wrought11 that stood between him and sleep. Tohave endangered the liberty, the very life, perhaps, of a man he lovedand venerated12, and who had welcomed him without heed13 of personal risk,this indeed was bitter to his youthful self-sufficiency. The thought ofGiannone's fate was like a cold clutch at his heart; nor was there anybalm in knowing that it was at Fulvia's request he had been so freelywelcomed; for he was persuaded that, whatever her previous feeling mighthave been, the scene just enacted14 must render him forever odious15 to her.
Turn whither it would, his tossing vanity found no repose16; and dawn rosefor him on a thorny17 waste of disillusionment.
Cantapresto broke in early on this vigil, flushed with the importance ofa letter from the Countess Valdu. The lady summoned her son to dinner,"to meet an old friend and distinguished7 visitor"; and a verbal messagebade Odo come early and wear his new uniform. He was too well acquaintedwith his mother's exaggerations to attach much importance to thesummons; but being glad of an excuse to escape his daily visit at thePalazzo Tournanches, he sent Donna Laura word that he would wait on herat two.
On the very threshold of Casa Valdu, Odo perceived that unwontedpreparations were afoot. The shabby liveries of the servants had beenrefurbished and the marble floor newly scoured18; and he found his motherseated in the drawing-room, an apartment never unshrouded save on themost ceremonious occasions. As to Donna Laura, she had undergone thesame process of renovation19, and with more striking results. It seemed toOdo, when she met him sparkling under her rouge20 and powder, as thoughsome withered21 flower had been dipped in water, regaining22 for the momenta23 languid semblance24 of its freshness. Her eyes shone, her hand trembledunder his lips, and the diamonds rose and fell on her eager bosom25.
"You are late!" she tenderly reproached him; and before he had time toreply, the double doors were thrown open, and the major-domo announcedin an awed26 voice: "His excellency Count Lelio Trescorre."Odo turned with a start. To his mind, already crowded with a confusionof thoughts, the name summoned a throng6 of memories. He saw again hismother's apartments at Pianura, and the handsome youth with lace rufflesand a clouded amber27 cane28, who came and went among her other visitorswith an air of such superiority, and who rode beside thetravelling-carriage on the first stage of their journey to Donnaz. Tothat handsome youth the gentleman just announced bore the likeness29 ofthe finished portrait to the sketch30. He was a man of abouttwo-and-thirty, of the middle height, with a delicate dark face and anair of arrogance31 not unbecomingly allied32 to an insinuating33 courtesy ofaddress. His dress of sombre velvet34, with a star on the breast, and aprofusion of the finest lace, suggested the desire to add dignity andweight to his appearance without renouncing35 the softer ambitions of hisage.
He received with a smile Donna Laura's agitated36 phrases of welcome. "Icome," said he kissing her hand, "in my private character, not as theEnvoy of Pianura, but as the friend and servant of the Countess Valdu;and I trust," he added turning to Odo, "of the Cavaliere Valsecca also."Odo bowed in silence.
"You may have heard," Trescorre continued, addressing him in the sameengaging tone, "that I am come to Turin on a mission from his Highnessto the court of Savoy: a trifling38 matter of boundary-lines and customs,which I undertook at the Duke's desire, the more readily, it must beowned, since it gave me the opportunity to renew my acquaintance withfriends whom absence has not taught me to forget." He smiled again atDonna Laura, who blushed like a girl.
The curiosity which Trescorre's words excited was lost to Odo in thepainful impression produced by his mother's agitation39. To see her, awoman already past her youth, and aged40 by her very efforts to preserveit, trembling and bridling41 under the cool eye of masculine indifference42,was a spectacle the more humiliating that he was too young to be movedby its human and pathetic side. He recalled once seeing a memento43 moriof delicately-tinted ivory, which represented a girl's head, one sideall dewy freshness, the other touched with death; and it seemed to himthat his mother's face resembled this tragic44 toy, the side her mirrorreflected being still rosy45 with youth, while that which others saw wasalready a ruin. His heart burned with disgust as he followed Donna Lauraand Trescorre into the dining-room, which had been set out with all thefamily plate, and decked with rare fruits and flowers. The Countess hadexcused her husband on the plea of his official duties, and the threesat down alone to a meal composed of the costliest46 delicacies47.
Their guest, who ate little and drank less, entertained them with thelatest news of Pianura, touching48 discreetly49 on the growing estrangementbetween the Duke and Duchess, and speaking with becoming gravity of theheir's weak health. It was clear that the speaker, without filling anofficial position at the court, was already deep in the Duke's counsels,and perhaps also in the Duchess's; and Odo guessed under his smilingindiscretions the cool aim of the man who never wastes a shot.
Toward the close of the meal, when the servants had withdrawn50, he turnedto Odo with a graver manner. "You have perhaps guessed, cavaliere," hesaid, "that in venturing to claim the Countess's hospitality in soprivate a manner, I had in mind the wish to open myself to you morefreely than would be possible at court." He paused a moment, as thoughto emphasise51 his words; and Odo fancied he cultivated the trick ofdeliberate speaking to counteract52 his natural arrogance of manner. "Thetime has come," he went on, "when it seems desirable that you should bemore familiar with the state of affairs at Pianura. For some years itseemed likely that the Duchess would give his Highness another son; butcircumstances now appear to preclude53 that hope; and it is the generalopinion of the court physicians that the young prince has not many yearsto live." He paused again, fixing his eyes on Odo's flushed face. "TheDuke," he continued, "has shown a natural reluctance54 to face a situationso painful both to his heart and his ambitions; but his feelings as aparent have yielded to his duty as a sovereign, and he recognises thefact that you should have an early opportunity of acquainting yourselfmore nearly with the affairs of the duchy, and also of seeing somethingof the other courts of Italy. I am persuaded," he added, "that, young asyou are, I need not point out to you on what slight contingencies55 allhuman fortunes hang, and how completely the heir's recovery or the birthof another prince must change the aspect of your future. You have, I amsure, the heart to face such chances with becoming equanimity56, and tocarry the weight of conditional57 honours without any undue58 faith in theirpermanence."The admonition was so lightly uttered that it seemed rather a tribute toOdo's good sense than a warning to his inexperience; and indeed it wasdifficult for him, in spite of an instinctive59 aversion to the man, toquarrel with anything in his address or language. Trescorre in factpossessed the art of putting younger men at their ease, while appearingas an equal among his elders: a gift doubtless developed by thecircumstances of court life, and the need of at once commanding respectand disarming60 diffidence.
He took leave upon his last words, declaring, in reply to the Countess'sprotests, that he had promised to accompany the court that afternoon toStupinigi. "But I hope," he added, turning to Odo, "to continue our talkat greater length, if you will favour me with a visit tomorrow at mylodgings."No sooner was the door closed on her illustrious visitor than DonnaLaura flung herself on Odo's bosom.
"I always knew it," she cried, "my dearest; but, oh, that I should liveto see the day!" and she wept and clung to him with a thousandendearments, from the nature of which he gathered that she alreadybeheld him on the throne of Pianura. To his laughing reminder62 of thedistance that still separated him from that dizzy eminence63, she madeanswer that there was far more than he knew, that the Duke had falleninto all manner of excesses which had already gravely impaired64 hishealth, and that for her part she only hoped her son, when raised to astation so far above her own, would not forget the tenderness with whichshe had ever cherished him, or the fact that Count Valdu's financialsituation was one quite unworthy the stepfather of a reigning65 prince.
Escaping at length from this parody66 of his own sensations, Odo foundhimself in a tumult67 of mind that solitude68 served only to increase.
Events had so pressed upon him within the last few days that at times hewas reduced to a passive sense of spectatorship, an inability to regardhimself as the centre of so many converging69 purposes. It was clear thatTrescorre's mission was mainly a pretext70 for seeing the Duke's youngkinsman; and that some special motive71 must have impelled72 the Duke toshow such sudden concern for his cousin's welfare. Trescorre need hardlyhave cautioned Odo against fixing his hopes on the succession. The Dukehimself was a man not above five-and-thirty, and more than one chancestood between Odo and the duchy; nor was it this contingency73 that sethis pulses beating, but rather the promise of an immediate74 change in hiscondition. The Duke wished him to travel, to visit the different courtsof Italy: what was the prospect75 of ruling over a stagnant76 principalityto this near vision of the world and the glories thereof, suddenlydiscovered from the golden height of opportunity? Save for a few weeksof autumn villeggiatura at some neighbouring chase or vineyard, Odo hadnot left Turin for nine years. He had come there a child and had grownto manhood among the same narrow influences and surroundings. To beturned loose on the world at two-and-twenty, with such an arrears77 ofexperience to his credit, was to enter on a richer inheritance than anyduchy; and in Odo's case the joy of the adventure was doubled by itstimeliness. That fate should thus break at a stroke the meshes78 of habit,should stoop to play the advocate of his secret inclinations79, seemed topromise him the complicity of the gods. Once in a lifetime, chance willthus snap the toils80 of a man's making; and it is instructive to see thepoor puppet adore the power that connives81 at his evasion82...
Trescorre remained a week in Turin; and Odo saw him daily at court, athis lodgings61, or in company. The little sovereignty of Pianura being animportant factor in the game of political equilibrium83, her envoy37 wassure of a flattering reception from the neighbouring powers; andTrescorre's person and address must have commended him to the mostfastidious company. He continued to pay particular attention to Odo, andthe rumour84 was soon abroad that the Cavaliere Valsecca had been sent forto visit his cousin, the reigning Duke; a rumour which, combined withDonna Laura's confidential85 hints, made Odo the centre of much femininesolicitude, and roused the Countess Clarice to a vivid sense of herrights. These circumstances, and his own tendency to drift on thecurrent of sensation, had carried Odo more easily than he could havehoped past the painful episode of the Professor's garden. He was stilltormented by the sense of his inability to right so grave a wrong; buthe found solace86 in the thought that his absence was after all the bestreparation he could make.
Trescorre, though distinguishing Odo by his favours, had not againreferred to the subject of their former conversation; but on the lastday of his visit he sent for Odo to his lodgings and at once enteredupon the subject.
"His Highness," said he, "does not for the present recommend yourresigning your commission in the Sardinian army; but as he desires youto visit him at Pianura, and to see something of the neighbouringcourts, he has charged me to obtain for you a two years' leave ofabsence from his Majesty's service: a favour the King has already beenpleased to accord. The Duke has moreover resolved to double your presentallowance and has entrusted87 me with the sum of two hundred ducats, whichhe desires you to spend in the purchase of a travelling-carriage, andsuch other appointments as are suitable to a gentleman of your rank andexpectations." As he spoke88, he unlocked his despatch-box and handed apurse to Odo. "His Highness," he continued, "is impatient to see you;and once your preparations are completed, I should advise you to set outwithout delay; that is," he added, after one of his characteristicpauses, "if I am right in supposing that there is no obstacle to yourdeparture."Odo, inferring an allusion89 to the Countess Clarice, smiled and colouredslightly. "I know of none," he said.
Trescorre bowed. "I am glad to hear it," he said, "for I know that a manof your age and appearance may have other inclinations than his own toconsider. Indeed, I have had reports of a connection that I should nottake the liberty of mentioning, were it not that your interest demandsit." He waited a moment, but Odo remained silent. "I am sure," he wenton, "you will do me the justice of believing that I mean no reflectionon the lady, when I warn you against being seen too often in the quarterbehind the Corpus Domini. Such attachments90, though engaging at theoutset to a fastidious taste, are often more troublesome than a youngman of your age can foresee; and in this case the situation iscomplicated by the fact that the girl's father is in ill odour with theauthorities, so that, should the motive of your visits be mistaken, youmight find yourself inconveniently91 involved in the proceedings92 of theHoly Office."Odo, who had turned pale, controlled himself sufficiently93 to listen insilence, and with as much pretence94 of indifference as he could assume.
It was the peculiar95 misery96 of his situation that he could not defendFulvia without betraying her father, and that of the two alternativesprudence bade him reject the one that chivalry97 would have chosen. Itflashed across him, however, that he might in some degree repair theharm he had done by finding out what measures were to be taken againstVivaldi; and to this end he carelessly asked:--"Is it possible that theProfessor has done anything to give offence in such quarters?"His assumption of carelessness was perhaps overdone98; for Trescorre'sface grew as blank as a shuttered house-front.
"I have heard rumours99 of the kind," he rejoined; "but they wouldscarcely have attracted my notice had I not learned of your honouringthe young lady with your favours." He glanced at Odo with a smile. "WereI a father," he added, "with a son of your age, my first advice to himwould be to form no sentimental100 ties but in his own society or in theworld of pleasure--the only two classes where the rules of the game areunderstood."
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