With this Odo was forced to be content; and he passed the interveningtime in devising the means of Fulvia's rescue. He was resolved to let norashness or negligence1 hinder the attempt, and to prove, by thediscretion of his course, that he was no longer the light fool who hadonce hazarded her safety. He went about his preparations as one that hadno private stake in the venture; but he was therefore the morepunctilious to show himself worthy2 of her trust and sensible of thecharge it laid upon him.
At their next meeting he found her in the same open and friendly mood,and she listened gratefully as he set forth3 his plan. This was that sheshould first write to a doctor of the University in Geneva, who had beenher father's friend, stating her plight4 and asking if he could help herto a living should she contrive5 to reach Geneva. Pending6 the reply, Odowas to plan the stages of the journey in such fashion that she mightcount on concealment7 in case of pursuit; and she was not to attempt herescape till these details were decided8. Fulvia was the more ready toacquiesce in this postponement9 as she did not wish to involve SisterMary in her adventure, but hoped to escape unassisted during anentertainment which was to take place in the convent on the feast ofSaint Michael, some six weeks later.
To Odo the delay was still more welcome; for it gave him what he mustneeds regard as his last opportunity of being in the girl's company. Shehad accepted his companionship on the journey with a readiness in whichhe saw only the magnanimity of pardon; but in Geneva they must part, andwhat hope had he of seeing her again? The first smart of vanity allayed,he was glad she chose to treat him as a friend. It was in this characterthat he could best prove his disinterestedness10, his resolve to makeamends for the past; and in this character only--as he now felt--wouldit be possible for him to part from her.
On his second visit he ventured to discharge his mind of its heaviestburden by enquiring11 what had befallen her and her father after he hadlost trace of them at Vercelli. She told him quite simply that, failingto meet him at the appointed place, they at once guessed that his planhad been winded by the abate12 who travelled with him; and that after afew hours' delay her father had succeeded in securing a chaise which hadtaken them safely across the border. She went on to speak of thehardships they had suffered after reaching Milan. Even under acomparatively liberal government it was small advantage to be marked bythe Holy Office; and though he received much kindness, and even materialaid, from those of his way of thinking, Vivaldi was unable to obtain theprofessorship he had hoped for.
From Milan they went to Pavia; but in this University, the most liberalin Italy, the chairs were so sought after that there was no hope of hisreceiving a charge worthy of his talents. Here, however, his spiritbreathed its natural air, and reluctant to lose the privileges of suchintercourse he decided to accept the post of librarian to an eccentricnobleman of the town. If his pay was modest his duties left him leisurefor the work which was his chief concern; for his patron, who had housesin Milan and Brescia, came seldom to Pavia, and Fulvia and her fatherhad the vast palace to themselves. They lodged14 in a corner adjoining thelibrary, spending their days in studious seclusion15, their evenings inconversation with some of the first scholars of Europe: the learnedbotanist Scopoli, Spallanzani, Volta, and Father Fontana, the famousmathematician. In such surroundings Vivaldi might have pursued his taskcontentedly enough, but for the thought of Fulvia's future. This, hisdaughter said, continually preyed16 on him, driving him to labours beyondhis strength; for he hoped by the publication of his book to make good,at least in part, the loss of the small property which the Sardiniangovernment had confiscated17. All her entreaties18 could not dissuade19 himfrom over-exertion; and in addition to his regular duties he took onhimself (as she afterward20 learned) the tedious work of revising proofsand copying manuscripts for the professors. This drudgery21, combined withsevere intellectual effort, exceeded his flagging powers; and the bookwas hardly completed when his patron, apprised22 of its contents, abruptlyremoved him from his post. From that day Vivaldi sank in health; but heended as became a sage23, content to have discharged the task for which hehad given up home and substance, and dying with the great Stoic's wordsupon his lips:--Lex non poena mors.
Vivaldi's friends in Milan came generously to Fulvia's aid, and shewould gladly have remained among them; but after the loss of her smallinheritance and of her father's manuscript she was without means ofrepaying their kindness, and nothing remained but to turn to her ownkin.
As Odo sat in the quiet cell, listening to her story, and hearing againthe great names his youth had reverenced24, he felt himself an exilereturning to his own, mounting the familiar heights and breathing theair that was his birthright. Looking back from this recovered standpointhe saw how far behind his early hopes had been left. Since his departurefrom Naples there had been nothing to remind him of that vast noiselesslabour of the spirit going on everywhere beneath the social surface:
that baffled but undiscouraged endeavour in which he had once soimpatiently claimed his share. Now every word of Fulvia's smote25 thebones of some dead purpose, till his bosom26 seemed a very valley ofEzekiel. Her own trials had fanned her love of freedom, and the nearhope of release lent an exaltation to her words. Of bitterness, ofresentment she gave no sign; and he was awed28 by the same serenity29 ofspirit which had struck him in the imprisoned30 doctor. But perhaps thestrongest impression she produced was that of increasing his points ofcontact with life. His other sentimental31 ties had been a barrier betweenhimself and the outer world; but the feeling which drew him to Fulviahad the effect of levelling the bounds of egoism, of letting into thecircle of his nearest emotions that great tide of human longing32 andeffort that had always faintly sounded on the shores of self. Perhaps itwas her power of evoking33 this wider life that gave a sense ofpermanence, of security almost, to the stolen moments of theirintercourse, lulling34 the lover's impatience35 of actual conditions withthe sense of something that must survive the accidents of fortune. Onlyin some such way could he explain, in looking back, the completeness ofeach moment spent with her. He was conscious even at the time of asuspension of the emotional laws, a charmed surrender to the limitationsof his fate. When he was away his impatience reasserted itself; but herpresence was like a soothing36 hand on his spirit, and he knew that hisquiet hours with her would count among those intervals37 between thecrises of life that flower in memory when the crises themselves havefaded.
It was natural that in the course of these visits she in turn shouldquestion him; and as his past rearranged itself beneath her scrutiny38 heseemed once more to trace the thread of purpose on which its fragmentshung. He told her of his connection with the liberals of Pianura, of thesituation at court, and of the reason for his prolonged travels. As hetalked her eyes conveyed the exquisite39 sense of her completecomprehension. She saw, before he could justify40 himself, how theuncertainty of his future, and his inability to act, had cast him adriftupon a life of superficial enjoyment41; and how his latent dissatisfactionwith this life had inevitably42 resulted in self-distrust and vacillation43.
"You wait your hour," she said of him; and he seized on the phrase as ajustification of his inactivity and, when chance should offer, a spur tofresh endeavour. Her interest in the liberal cause had been intensifiedand exalted44 by her father's death--his martyrdom, as she described it.
Like most women possessed45 of an abstract idea she had unconsciouslypersonified the idea and made a religion of it; but it was a religion ofcharity and not of vindictiveness46. "I should like my father's deathavenged by love and not by hate," she said; "I would have it bringpeace, not a sword."On one point only she remained, if not hostile yet unresponsive. Thiswas when he spoke47 of de Crucis. Her manner hardened instantly, and heperceived that, though he dwelt on the Jesuit's tolerant view andcultivated tastes, she beheld48 only the priest and not the man. She hadbeen eager to hear of Crescenti, whom she knew by name as a student ofEuropean repute, and to the praise of whose parochial charities shelistened with outspoken49 sympathy; but the Jesuits stood for the HolyOffice, and she had suffered too deeply at the hands of the Holy Officeto regard with an open mind any who might be supposed to represent itsprinciples. It was impossible for Odo to make her understand howdistinctly, in de Crucis's case, the man predominated over the order;and conscious of the painfulness of the subject, he gave up the attemptto interest her in his friend.
Three or four times he was permitted to visit her in her cell: afterthat they met almost daily in the parlour, where, about the hour ofbenediction, they could talk almost as privately50 under cover of thegeneral chatter51. In due time Fulvia received an answer from theCalvinist professor, who assured her of a welcome in Geneva and shelterunder his roof. Odo, meanwhile, had perfected the plan of their journey;but as Michaelmas approached he began to fear Cantapresto's observation.
He now bitterly regretted that he had not held to his purpose of sendingthe soprano back to Pianura; but to do so at this point would be tochallenge observation and he resolved instead on despatching him toMonte Alloro with a letter to the old Duke. As the way to Geneva lay inthe opposite direction this would at least give the fugitives52 a threedays' lead; and they had little cause to fear pursuit from any otherquarter. The convent indeed might raise a hue53 and cry; but the nuns54 ofSanta Chiara had lately given the devout55 so much cause for scandal thatthe abbess would probably be disposed to hush56 up any fresh delinquency.
The time too was well-chosen; for the sisters had prevailed on theReverend Mother to celebrate the saint's day by a masked ball, and thewhole convent was engrossed57 in the invention of whimsical disguises. Thenuns indeed were not to take part in the ball; but a number of them wereto appear in an allegorical entertainment with which the evening was toopen. The new Papal Nuncio, who was lately arrived in Venice, hadpromised to be present; and as he was known to be a man of pleasurethere was scarce a sister in the convent but had an eye to his conquest.
These circumstances gave to Fulvia's plans the shelter of indifference;for in the delightful58 effort of surpassing the other nuns even Mary ofthe Crucifix lost interest in her friend's affairs.
Odo, to preserve the secrecy59 of his designs, had been obliged to keep upa pretence60 of his former habits, showing himself abroad withCoeur-Volant and Castelrovinato and frequenting the Procuratessa's routsand card-parties. This lady, though lately returned to the Brenta, hadannounced her intention of coming to Venice for the ball at SantaChiara; and Coeur-Volant was mightily61 preoccupied62 with theentertainment, at which he purposed his mistress should outshine all hercompanions.
The evening came at last, and Odo found himself entering the gates ofSanta Chiara with a throng63 of merry-makers. The convent was noted64 forits splendid hospitality, and unwonted preparations had been made tohonour the saint. The brightly-illuminated bridge leading to the squareof Santa Chiara was decked with a colonnade65 of pasteboard and stiffenedlinen cunningly painted, and a classical portico66 masked the entrancegate. A flourish of trumpets67 and hautboys, and the firing of miniaturecannon, greeted the arrival of the guests, who were escorted to theparlour, which was hung with tapestries68 and glowing with lights like aLady Chapel69. Here they were received by the abbess, who, on the arrivalof the Nuncio, led the way to the garden, where a stage had beenerected.
The nuns who were not to take part in the play had been seated directlyunder the stage, divided from the rest of the company by a low screen offoliage. Ranged beneath the footlights, which shone on their bareshoulders and white gowns, and on the gauze veils replacing theirmonastic coifs, they seemed a choir70 of pagan virgins71 grouped in theproscenium of an antique theatre. Everything indeed combined to producethe impression of some classic festival: the setting of motionlessfoliage, the mild autumnal sky in which the stars hung near and vivid,and the foreground thronged72 with a motley company lit by the shiftingbrightness of torches.
As Odo, in mask and travesty73, stood observing the fantastically-dressedaudience, the pasteboard theatre adorned74 with statuary, and the nunsflitting across the stage, his imagination, strung to the highest pitchby his own impending75 venture, was thrilled by the contrast between theoutward appearance of the scene and its underlying76 reality. From wherehe stood he looked directly at the abbess, who was seated with theNuncio and his suite77 under the tall crucifix in the centre of thegarden. As if to emphasise78 the irony79 of the situation, the torch fixedbehind this noble group cast an enlarged shadow of the cross over theabbess's white gown and the splendid robes of her companions, who,though they wore the mask, had not laid aside their clerical dress. ToOdo the juxtaposition80 had the effect of some supernatural warning, theshadow of the divine wrath81 projected on its heedless ministers; animpression heightened by the fact that, just opposite the cross, alively figure of Pan, surmounting82 the pediment of the theatre, seemed tofling defiance83 at the Galilean intruder.
The nuns, like the rest of the company, were masked; and it had beenagreed between Odo and Fulvia that the latter should wear a wreath ofmyrtle above her veil. As almost all her companions had chosenbrightly-coloured flowers this dark green chaplet was easilydistinguished among the clustered heads beneath the stage, and Odo hadno doubt of being able to rejoin Fulvia in the moment of dispersal thatshould follow the conclusion of the play. He knew that the sisters wereto precede their guests and be locked behind the grate before the ballbegan; but as they passed through the garden and cloisters84 the barrierbetween nuns and visitors would probably not be too strictly86 maintained.
As he had foreseen, the company, attracted by the graceful87 procession,pressed forward regardless of the assistant mistresses' protests, andthe shadowy arcades88 were full of laughter and whispered snatches of talkas the white flock was driven back to its fold.
Odo had withdrawn89 to the darkest angle of the cloister85, close to a doorleading to the pharmacy91. It was here that Fulvia had told him to wait;and though he had lost sight of her when the audience rose, he stoodconfidently watching for the reappearance of the myrtle-wreath.
Presently he saw it close at hand; and just then the line of sistersflowed toward him, driven forward by a group of lively masqueraders,among whom he seemed to recognise Coeur-Volant's voice and figure.
Nothing could have been more opportune92, for the pressure swept thewearer of the myrtle-wreath almost into his arms; and as the intruderswere dispersed93 and the nuns laughingly reformed their lines, her handlingered in his and he felt himself drawn90 toward the door.
It yielded to her touch and Odo followed her down a dark passageway tothe empty room where rows of old Faenza jars and quaintly-shaped flagonsglimmered in the dusk. Beyond the pharmacy was another door, the key ofwhich hung on the wall with the portress's hood94 and cloak. Without aword the girl wrapped herself in the cloak and, fitting the key to thelock, softly opened the door. All this was done with a rapidity andassurance for which Odo was unprepared; but, reflecting that Fulvia'swhole future hung on the promptness with which each detail of her planwas executed, he concluded that her natural force of character enabledher to assume an ease she could hardly feel.
The door opened on the kitchen-garden, and brushing the lavender-hedgeswith her flying skirts she sped on ahead of Odo to the postern which thenuns were accustomed to use for their nocturnal escapades. Only thethickness of an oaken gate stood between Fulvia and the outer world. Toher the opening of the gate meant the first step toward freedom, but toOdo the passing from their enchanted95 weeks of fellowship to the innerloneliness of his former life. He hung back silent while she drew thebolt.
A moment later they had crossed the threshold and his gondola96 wasslipping toward them out of the shadow of the wall. Fulvia sprang onboard and he followed her under the felze. The warm darkness enclosingthem stirred impulses which their daily intercourse13 had subdued97, and inthe sense of her nearness he lost sight of the conditions which hadbrought them together. The feeling seemed to communicate itself; for asthe gondola rounded the angle of the convent-wall and swung out on theopen, she drooped98 toward him with the turn of the boat and their lipsmet under the loosened masks.
At the same instant the light of the Virgin's shrine99 in the corner ofthe convent-wall fell through the window of the felze on the face liftedto Odo's; and he found himself suddenly confronted by the tender eyesand malicious100 smile of Sister Mary of the Crucifix.
"By Diana," she cried as he started back, "I did but claim my pay inadvance; nor do I think that, when she knows all, Sister Veronica willgrudge me my reward!"He continued to stare at her in speechless bewilderment, and she went onwith a kind of tender impatience: "You simpleton, can you not guess thatyou were watched, and that but for me your Veronica would at this momentbe lying under lock and key in her cell? Instead of which," shecontinued, speaking more slowly, and leaning back as though to enjoy thefull savour of his suspense101, "instead of which she now awaits you in asafe nook of my choosing, where, within half an hour's time, you mayatone to her with interest for the infidelity into which I have betrayedyou.""She knows, then?" Odo faltered102, not daring to say more in his ignoranceof Sister Mary's share in the secret.
Sister Mary shook her head with a tantalising laugh. "That you arecoming? Alas103, no, poor angel! She fancies that she has been sent fromthe convent to avoid you--as indeed she was, and by the ReverendMother's own order, who, it seems, had wind of the intrigue104 thismorning. But, the saints be praised, the excellent sister who wasordered to attend her is in my pay and instead of conducting her to herrelatives of San Barnado, who were to keep her locked up over night,has, if I mistake not, taken her to a good woman of my acquaintance--anold servant, in fact--who will guard her as jealously as the familyplate till you and I come to her release."As she spoke she put out her head and gave a whispered order to thegondolier; and at the word the boat swung round and headed for the city.
In the violent reaction which this strange encounter produced, Odo wasfor the moment incapable105 of taking any clear note of his surroundings.
Uncertain if he were not once more the victim of some such mischance asseemed to attend all his efforts to succour Fulvia, he sat in silentapprehension as the gondola shot across the Grand Canal and entered thelabyrinth of water-ways behind San Moise. Sister Mary took his silencephilosophically.
"You dare not speak to me, for fear of betraying yourself," she said,"and I scarce wonder at your distrust; for your plans were so well laidthat I had no notion of what was on foot, and must have remained inignorance if Veronica had not been put in Sister Martha's charge. Butyou will both live to thank me, and I hope," she added, laughing, "toown that you would have done better to take me into your confidence fromthe first."As she spoke the gondola touched at the head of a narrow passage whichlost itself in the blackness of the overhanging houses. Sister Marysprang out and drew Odo after her. A few yards down the alley27 sheentered a plain low-storied house somewhat withdrawn behind itsneighbours. Followed by Odo she groped her way up a dark flight ofstairs and knocked at a door on the upper landing. A vague flutterwithin, indicative of whispers and uncertain movements, was followed bythe slipping of the bolt, and a middle-aged106 woman looked out. She drewback with an exclamation107 of welcome, and Sister Mary, seizing Odo by theshoulders, pushed him across the threshold of a small dimly-lit kitchen.
Fulvia, in her nun's habit, cowered108 in the darkest corner; but at sightof Odo she sprang up, and ran toward him with a happy cry.
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