CHAPTER 2
BOOK III · PART IX
CHAPTER II
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Two days later Teresa sent for her grandson, and he went the same afternoon, but he would not allow Maddalena to go with him, suspecting why he had been sent for.
Even Teresa must exclaim when she saw him standing in his shabby old clothes. "You are not yet a pauper," she began sharply, then she shrugged her shoulders. "But why do I talk? You will do as you please, Gian-Luca."