The Gadfly
by
E. L. Voynich
Part 9 out of 9
a little while, looking round with recovered self-command.
"Someone must be dead."
"That is what I came to show you," Martini
answered in his everyday voice. He picked up the
placard from the floor and handed it to her.
Hastily printed in large type was a black-bordered
announcement that: "Our dearly beloved Bishop,
His Eminence the Cardinal, Monsignor Lorenzo
Montanelli," had died suddenly at Ravenna, "from
the rupture of an aneurism of the heart."
She glanced up quickly from the paper, and
Martini answered the unspoken suggestion in her
eyes with a shrug of his shoulders.
"What would you have, Madonna? Aneurism
is as good a word as any other."
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