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The hitch in the progress of the harvest came ever a little and a little more into evidence: the smut darkened on the ear; the whisper of a threatened blight grew from vague to articulate -- grew clearer, grew bolder -- until, lo! -- all in a moment it was a definite voice.
This happened on the morning succeeding Bernardo's visit to the Casa Caprona -- a visit of which, it would appear, the Duchess of Milan had been made somehow cognisant.