There were violets close at hand, I know, because I remember the scent of them! But when I came to try, it seem'd to me that I found all these things in a dozen other places." "Nevertheless, you know at what point you entered the Pineta; it cannot be very difficult to have the whole wood, within such a distance as it is at all likely that she should have strayed to, thoroughly searched.
But the best men for the purpose would be some of the foresters in the employ of the farmers of the forest.

I dare say that we might find--what is that coming along the road yonder ?" said the lawyer interrupting himself.
The two gentlemen had been standing during the above short conversation just on the outside of the gate, and looking down the stretch of long straight road towards St.Apollinare and the pine forest.
"It is a knot of men coming along the road.

They are likely enough some of the very fellows we want.

In that case we might get them to go back with us without loss of time." "With us ?" said the lawyer, who had not bargained when he left his home, for any such expedition.

"Well, I don't mind helping you, Signor Marchese, in your search," he added, after a moment's consideration; "but I am not going to walk to the Pineta this afternoon; and I should think you must have had enough of it for to-day.