Carlo tried humbly to expostulate once or twice.

In the end his head was bowed, and he signified a dumb acquiescence.
"Once more, good-bye." The Chief addressed the signorina in English.
She replied in the same tongue, "Good-bye," tremulously; and passion mounting on it, added--"Oh! when shall I see you again ?" "When Rome is purified to be a fit place for such as you." In another minute he was hidden on the slope of the mountain lying toward Orta..