34/37 There he lived now, all the year round, excepting the ten days which he annually spent in Naples. The little house was full of books, and there was a big, old shaky press, containing his manuscripts, the work of his whole life. He had neither friends nor companions of his own class, but he was beloved by all the people. Playing on his name, Teodoro, in their dialect, they called him, O prevete d'oro'-- 'the priest of gold.' And many said that he had performed miracles, when he had fasted in Lent. For although the intimacy had been interrupted for years, by circumstances, it had never been checked by any action or word of either. |