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All rights reserved. Sign in to annotate. Delete Cancel Save. The older man shook his head slowly. He has created many terrible poisons from the plants in his garden.
He thinks he can cure sickness with these poisons. It is true that several times he has cured a very sick person that everyone thought would die. I think he would sacrifice any life, even his own, for one of his experiments. The old professor smiled at the young man. People say she is very beautiful. But few men in Padua have ever seen her. On his way home, he stopped at a flower shop where he bought some fresh flowers. He returned to his room and sat by the window. Very little sunlight was left.
The garden was quiet. Then someone came out of the doorway of the little brown house. It was Beatrice. She entered the garden and walked among the plants. She bent to touch the leaves of a plant or to smell a flower. When she reached the purple plant, she buried her face in its flowers.
The ordinary air makes me weak. And give me one of your beautiful flowers. As she lifted it to put it in her dark hair, a few drops of liquid from the flower fell to the ground.
One of the drops landed on the head of a tiny lizard crawling near the feet of Beatrice. For a moment the small animal twisted violently. Then it moved no more. Beatrice did not seem surprised. She sighed and placed the flower in her hair. Giovanni leaned out of the window so he could see her better.
At this moment, a beautiful butterfly flew over the garden wall. It seemed to be attracted by Beatrice and flew once around her head. Beatrice shook her head sadly. She saw the young man looking at her.
Giovanni picked up the flowers he had bought and threw them down to her. She picked up the flowers from the ground and quickly ran to the house.
She stopped at the door for a moment to wave shyly to Giovanni. It seemed to him that his flowers were beginning to turn brown in her hands. He wished he had not talked to Beatrice because now he felt under the power of her beauty. He was a little afraid of her, too. Teach your students to analyze literature like LitCharts does.
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