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The Gadfly (Paperback)
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The Gadfly (Paperback)
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Loot Price R336
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Arthur sat in the library of the theological seminary at Pisa,
looking through a pile of manuscript sermons. It was a hot evening
in June, and the windows stood wide open, with the shutters half
closed for coolness. The Father Director, Canon Montanelli, paused
a moment in his writing to glance lovingly at the black head bent
over the papers. "Can't you find it, carino? Never mind; I must
rewrite the passage. Possibly it has got torn up, and I have kept
you all this time for nothing." Montanelli's voice was rather low,
but full and resonant, with a silvery purity of tone that gave to
his speech a peculiar charm. It was the voice of a born orator,
rich in possible modulations. When he spoke to Arthur its note was
always that of a caress. "No, Padre, I must find it; I'm sure you
put it here. You will never make it the same by rewriting."
Montanelli went on with his work. A sleepy cockchafer hummed
drowsily outside the window, and the long, melancholy call of a
fruitseller echoed down the street: "Fragola fragola " "'On the
Healing of the Leper'; here it is." Arthur came across the room
with the velvet tread that always exasperated the good folk at
home. He was a slender little creature, more like an Italian in a
sixteenth-century portrait than a middle-class English lad of the
thirties. From the long eyebrows and sensitive mouth to the small
hands and feet, everything about him was too much chiseled,
overdelicate. Sitting still, he might have been taken for a very
pretty girl masquerading in male attire; but when he moved, his
lithe agility suggested a tame panther without the claws. "Is that
really it? What should I do without you, Arthur? I should always be
losing my things. No, I am not going to write any more now. Come
out into the garden, and I will help you with your work. What is
the bit you couldn't understand?"
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