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Poor women who had to
suffer them!
"I am sorry for your mother," she said, gently. "That must be very
hard."
"Si, Signora, it is hard. My mamma was very unhappy to-day. She put
her head on the table, and she cried. But that was because my Patrigno
is put in prison."
"In prison! What has he done?"
Ruffo looked at her, and she saw that the simple expression had gone
out of his eyes.
"Signora, I thought perhaps you knew."
"I? But I have never seen your step-father."
"No, Signora. But--but you have that girl here in your house."
"What girl?"
Suddenly, almost while she was speaking, Hermione understood.
"Peppina!" she said. "It was your Patrigno who wounded Peppina?"
"Si, Signora."
There was a silence between them. Then Hermione said, gently:
"I am very sorry for your poor mother, Ruffo--very sorry. Tell me, can
she manage? About money, I mean?"
"It is not so much the money she was crying about, Signora. But, of
course, while Patrigno is in prison he cannot earn money for her.


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