I had not the time to
formulate the decoctions that would have saved him—
they take weeks to create and must come from your own
blood! You were perilously close to death, and had I not
watched you constantly for the week you were
unconscious they would have buried you alive!
Gianfrancesco was ready to give up after two days,
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ready to throw you in the plague cart! Of course he had
no use for you after bearing witness to the loss of your
womanly organs. ‘You will please to tell this—this idiot to release me. ‘Oh, Jacques, I cannot forgive myself!’
‘Never you fret, miss,’ he uttered at once in a faint voice. He worked afternoons,
when everybody else went to sleep; he worked at night under a heat-giving light,
with insects buzzing and dropping about, with a blue haze of tobacco smoke that
tried to get out and could not. She read voraciously, and presently, because of her aunt’s censorship, she
took to smuggling any books she thought might be prohibited instead of bringing
them home openly, and she went to the theatre whenever she could produce an
acceptable friend to accompany her. 1.
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