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Emma
- part 1
(from "Tales of the Lifeguard of Rimini")
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Emma was really happy

: Xavier had sought in marriage, as she had predicted for some time and just as he had hoped in his heart. Xavier was presented suddenly that late summer morning in his brilliant uniform of the Dragon King in the bright sword at his side and his hat in his hand. He knocked firmly on the door of his house and asked her to Mary, the maid who had opened.

She had eagerly awaited, as it always was, sitting in blue walking up and down on the vast Iranian carpet, stopping occasionally to wander with their eyes out in the flower garden, an imposing figure, austere blacks under the mustache, in love since deep into the dark eyes.

Emma loved everything about him, his manners rustic, strong military by his frank and direct look that softened looking at her, his deep voice that seemed to soften talking. Now he knew that languor explained that he took in when he was away and that fire that warmed his limbs when he was near. Love ... she was sure, it was Love, the capital, the eternal, the infinite one. What she had never felt before in all his twenty years of his life happy. entry was rapid in the living room and receiving a surprise when he stopped to look out the window. He had turned suddenly, with two long strides he had reached and not to mention he had taken his arms and hold him staring into his eyes with his magnetic eyes. Only a moment and then with a hint of a smile in the face of austere said: "Emma, \u200b\u200bmy dear, my Sweet Emma, \u200b\u200bwill you marry me? "He had not thought at all and radiant face," Yes, "he replied in a whisper. "Now ... tomorrow "he continued with him now a serious expression in his eyes, fit it into the ring a ring adorned with a huge ruby. "Except my uncle, the Bishop, we wait for tomorrow afternoon at the Cathedral ... "
" But why, why my love so fast ... Sunday because the function of the Holy? Only four more days to confirm to the relatives and friends, who had awaited this event, "he said, stroking the ring. "Why Sunday, Emma, \u200b\u200bmy dear, I'll be off from Rimini join my regiment in preparation for the war against the Austrians for the liberation of Venice. We do not have any more time in front of us and I already regret not having asked first to marry ... I arranged everything and even your agree ... I just wanted your consent. " So ended with Xavier, a soft note of pain in his words.

Emma was really unhappy

: Xavier since he started, and with him his brother Lino not even a letter, a message ... And that Sunday, two days after the marriage, the Holy Mass, he prayed long kneeling before the high altar, the white robe and a white headscarf to cover their hair. 'God, I beg you in the Your infinite goodness, rendimelo safe and sound ... ' so murmured to herself. Bishop, from the pulpit elevated bronze stained with the deeds of the saint, offer words of consolation to her and all women whose husbands were now on the borders of Veneto pending orders for the coming war. But more than words was the tone in which he had given comfort to the ears and that went to the heart of this mass to the sacred rite. were prepared, women, the separation from husbands who had come to the notices of call to arms, perhaps all but Emma ... too cool wife to accept and admit that his love had just found out so much already.

Emma with her twenty years as filled with joy and now filled with sadness and prayed, his eyes swollen with tears not allow her to see her around the real world, detached from everything and everybody.

'Why, God .. why have you made so happy ... and now so cruelly saddened 'sometimes brooding in the mind.

And immediately he regretted his outburst of this and came to pray to God, Jesus, Mary and All Saints, as his mother had taught her, that they had pity on her grief and grant you the joy and happiness in the long desired and finally found. The King's Regiment of Dragoons advanced compact with the horses abreast in row three squadrons deployed in less than a stone's throw from each other. The were now close to enemy lines. The colonel had been ordered to reach the infantry which, crossed from the south boundaries of the Veneto region had reached the flat, had settled in the bushes and rocks waiting for the promised reinforcements. At that level the Cavalry had good space for maneuver at a gallop making charges against the enemy lines that could be seen at the bottom and then the soldiers, attacking with bayonets, they had their moment of glory by shooting, hitting, slaughtering, stabbing enemies and, hopefully, turning in flight to the lands of the South. So the generals had planned
Piedmont Council of War in the rear. And so wished
Volunteers Tuscany and all over Italy flocked to the call to arms and Patriots of Lombardy, Veneto and Friuli regions converged in their ranks.
is so desirable in their hearts the Venetians remained within the city walls waiting for the long-awaited liberation and reunification with the rest of Italy.

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