Граф Монте-Кристо

The Rain of Blood.

           Onemorningthathehaddemandedmoney,threateningherwiththeseverestconsequencesifshedidnotsupplyhimwithwhathedesired,hedisappearedandremainedawayallday,leavingthekind-heartedAssunta,wholovedhimasifhewereherownchild,toweepoverhisconductandbewailhisabsence.Eveningcame,andstill,withallthepatientsolicitudeofamother,shewatchedforhisreturn.

           "Astheeleventhhourstruck,heenteredwithaswaggeringair,attendedbytwoofthemostdissoluteandrecklessofhisbooncompanions.Shestretchedoutherarmstohim,buttheyseizedholdofher,andoneofthethreenoneotherthantheaccursedBenedettoexclaimed‘Puthertotortureandshe’llsoontelluswherehermoneyis.’

           "Itunfortunatelyhappenedthatourneighbor,Vasilio,wasatBastia,leavingnopersoninhishousebuthiswife;nohumancreaturebesidecouldhearorseeanythingthattookplacewithinourdwelling.TwoheldpoorAssunta,who,unabletoconceivethatanyharmwasintendedtoher,smiledinthefaceofthosewhoweresoontobecomeherexecutioners.Thethirdproceededtobarricadethedoorsandwindows,thenreturned,andthethreeunitedinstiflingthecriesofterrorincitedbythesightofthesepreparations,andthendraggedAssuntafeetforemosttowardsthebrazier,expectingtowringfromheranavowalofwherehersupposedtreasurewassecreted.

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