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CHAPTER IV. MONNA VALENTINA

In after years the Lord of Aquila was wont to aver in all solemnity that it was the sight of her wondrous beauty set up such a disorder in his soul that it overcame his senses, and laid him swooning at her feet. That he, himself, believed it so, it is not ours to doubt, for all that we may be more prone to agree with the opinion afterwards expressed by Fanfulla and the friar--and deeply resented by the Count--that in leaping to his feet in over-violent haste his wound re-opened, and the pain of this, combining with the weak condition that resulted from his loss of blood, had caused his sudden faintness.

"Who is this, Peppe?" she asked the fool, and he, mindful of the oath he had sworn, answered her brazenly that he did not know, adding that it was--as she might see---some poor wounded fellow.

"Wounded?" she echoed, and her glorious eyes grew very pitiful. "And alone?"

"There was a gentleman here, tending him, Madonna; but he is gone with Fra Domenico to the Convent of Acquasparta to seek the necessaries to mend his shoulder."

"Poor gentleman," she murmured, approaching the fallen figure. "How came he by his hurt?"

"That, Madonna, is more than I can tell."

"Can we do nothing for him until his friends return?" was her next question, bending over the Count as she spoke. "Come, Peppino," she cried, "lend me your aid. Get me water from the brook, yonder."

The fool looked about him for a vessel, and his eye falling upon the Count's capacious hat, he snatched it up, and went his errand. When he returned, the lady was kneeling with the unconscious man's head in her lap. Into the hatful of water that Peppe brought her she dipped a kerchief, and with this she bathed the brow on which his long black hair lay matted and disordered.

1. What happened when he jumped up quickly?
2. Why?
3. Who took pity upon him?
4. Was there someone helping him previously?
5. Why did he leave?
6. To treat what body part?
7. Did he leave with someone else?
8. Who?
9. Where were they headed?
10. Did she want to help him?
11. Who did she ask for help in fetching something?
12. What did she ask him to fetch?
13. From where?
14. Did he return with it?
15. Where did he put the water?
16. Whose hat was it?
17. What did she dip into it?
18. What did she do with that?
19. Was his hair tidy?
20. What color was it?
1. he fainted
2. loss of blood
3. MONNA VALENTINA
4. yes
5. to get medical supplies
6. his shoulder
7. yes
8. Fra Domenico
9. Convent of Acquasparta t
10. yes
11. Peppino
12. water
13. the brook
14. yes
15. a hat
16. Lord of Aquila
17. kerchief,
18. bathed his brow
19. no
20. black