Download book La Chartreuse de Parme Volume 3

La Chartreuse de Parme Volume 3 by Stendhal

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Author: Stendhal
Number of Pages: 68 pages
Published Date: 12 Sep 2013
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
Publication Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781230315607
Download Link: La Chartreuse de Parme Volume 3
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ... >NE night, about an hour after midnight, Fabrice was at his window, contemplating through the little wicket in the shutter the stars and the extensive prospect visible from the summit of the Farnese Tower. His eyes, exploring the country in the direction of Ferrara and the lower Po, took note of a small but brilliant light, proceeding apparently from the top of a tower. "That light can't be seen from the plain," said Fabrice to himself; "it must be a signal intended for some distant point." All at once he noticed that the light appeared and vanished at brief and regular intervals. "Some young girl holding a conversation with her lover in the next village." He counted nine flashes in succession. "That is an I," he said to himself, I being the ninth letter of the alphabet. Then there was a pause, succeeded by fourteen flashes: "That is an N; " another pause and a single flash: "That is an A; the word is Ina." Imagine his wonder and delight when, on collocating the words formed by this primitive telegraphic system, he found them to make up the sentence: Ina Pensa A Te. Gina is thinking of thee, of course! He instantly replied in the same manner, flashing his lamp at the peep-hole in the shutter: Fabrice Loves Thee! The correspondence was continued until day broke. That night was the one hundred and seventy-third of his captivity, and he was informed that this signaling had been going on nightly for four months. But the scheme was liable to be detected and curious eyes might read their messages; that very night they began to frame a system of arbitraries: thus, the light displayed three times in rapid succession stood for the Duchess; four flashes meant the Prince; two, the Count; two rapid flashes followed by two slow ones, escape, and...

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