Identifier: countryofringb00trev (find matches)
Title: The country of The ring and the book
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Treves, Frederick, Sir, 1853-1923
Subjects: Browning, Robert, 1812-1889
Publisher: London : Cassell
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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tant hinges, and through the gapslipped out into the street, free for the first time sinceshe had put her foot within the accursed city. Capon-sacchi was there in lay dress in the shadow of the wall.He came forward to meet her, and with the touch ofhis hand her sense of horror and of loneliness vanished.She had with her a little money and a bundle of clothingsuch as she could carry in her arms, together with afew simple trinkets in a box. She had her money tiedup in the corner of a handkerchief, after the mannerof children. The two walked together through the silent streets,like two ghosts in a city of the dead. It was a darknight. Every house looked mysterious and unfamiliar,while every lane led into black nothingness. Theymade their way to the San Clemente Gate, which gate,like those of the rest of the city, was closed. Theyclimbed, however, the wall on the hill of the Torrione,and, having dropped over on the other side, reachedthe Horse Inn just outside the gate above mentioned. 44
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18.—THE OLD HOUSE IN THE VIA DEL GOVERNO VECCHIO, ROME. The Flight with the Priest There they found a two-horse carriage awaiting themin charge of a servant from the Canale Inn by thename of Venerino. He had left Arezzo on Sundayevening, at the Ave Maria, before the gates had beenshut. They mounted the carriage and drove roundoutside the walls of the city to the San Spirito Gate,where they took the high road to Rome by way ofPerugia. The first stopping place for the changing of horseswas at Camoscia, a little posting-village below Cortona.It was here that Venerino the driver left them and re-turned to Arezzo. They were clear of the city by aboutone oclock in the morning—that is, the morning ofMonday, April 29th. It was alleged that Pompilia had u put a sleepingpotion and opium in her husbands wine at dinner onthe night on which she escaped, and furthermore thatshe had stolen from the house, money, jewellery andclothing of considerable value, and had taken the samewith her. When th

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