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Название книги: Heresy
Автор(ы): S Parris
Жанр: Триллер
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/Heresy-192299.html
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Prologue
MONASTERY OF SAN DOMENICO MAGGIORE, NAPLES 1576The outer door was thrown open with a crash that resounded along the passage, and the floorboards shook with the purposeful marching of several pairs of feet. Inside the small cubicle where I perched on the edge of a wooden bench, taking care not to sit too close to the hole that opened over the cesspit beneath, my little candle flickered in the sudden draught of their entrance, sending wavering shadows growing and shrinking along the stone walls. Allora, I thought, looking up. They have come for me at last.The footsteps halted outside the cubicle door, to be replaced by the furious hammering of a fist and the abbot's throaty voice, strained beyond its usual placid tones of diplomacy."Fra Giordano! I order you to come out this instant, with whatever you hold in your hands in plain sight!"I caught a snigger from one of the monks who accompanied him, swiftly followed by a stern tutting from the abbot, Fra Domenico Vita, and could not help smiling to myself, in spite of the
Название книги: Heresy
Автор(ы): S Parris
Жанр: Триллер
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/Heresy-192299.html
© 2010
Prologue
MONASTERY OF SAN DOMENICO MAGGIORE, NAPLES 1576The outer door was thrown open with a crash that resounded along the passage, and the floorboards shook with the purposeful marching of several pairs of feet. Inside the small cubicle where I perched on the edge of a wooden bench, taking care not to sit too close to the hole that opened over the cesspit beneath, my little candle flickered in the sudden draught of their entrance, sending wavering shadows growing and shrinking along the stone walls. Allora, I thought, looking up. They have come for me at last.The footsteps halted outside the cubicle door, to be replaced by the furious hammering of a fist and the abbot's throaty voice, strained beyond its usual placid tones of diplomacy."Fra Giordano! I order you to come out this instant, with whatever you hold in your hands in plain sight!"I caught a snigger from one of the monks who accompanied him, swiftly followed by a stern tutting from the abbot, Fra Domenico Vita, and could not help smiling to myself, in spite of the
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