United States or South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
"At all events, the Duchessa di Santangiolo is a very beautiful woman." "The Signorino has seen her?" Marietta asked. "I have grounds for believing so. An apparition a phantom of delight appeared on the opposite bank of the tumultuous Aco, and announced herself as my landlady. Of course, she may have been an impostor but she made no attempt to get the rent.
Her bigotry is not such a negligible quantity, after all," Peter concluded. "But what," he demanded of Marietta, as she ministered to his wants at dinner, "what does one barrier more or less matter, when people are already divided by a gulf that never can be traversed? You see that river?" He pointed through his open window to the Aco. "It is a symbol.
He struggled and sweated for a long time, but there was no way in which he could get the thing up, so at last he threw it on the ground and lay on top of it, cursing it in Provencal. Ta!... Ta!... Ta!... Tarata! "Ques aco?" said Tartarin, waking up with a start. It was the trumpets of the Chasseurs d'Afrique sounding reveille in the barracks at Mustapha.
He crossed the Aco, and struck bravely forward, up the smooth lawns, under the bending trees, towards the castle. The sun was setting. The irregular mass of buildings stood out in varying shades of blue, against varying, dying shades of red. Half way there, Peter stopped, and looked back.
"That's saying a good deal," returned the marquis. "Not one worrt more as enough, my lort," said Duncan "She was only pe her next wife, put, ochone! ochone! why did she'll pe marry her? You would haf stapt her long aco, my lort, if she'll was your wife, and you was knowing the tamned fox and padger she was pe. Ochone! and she tidn't pe have her turk at her hench nor her sgian in her hose."
'Ve are koink, said Darco, 'to the Hareng d'Or, where they haf a dry champagne, and where they can give you such a preakfast as you cannot get in the world. Ant I shall have a Cloria with a zeventy-year-old Gogniag in it. Ant the Blat de chour is a Navarin de mouton. I saw that as I passed the house two hours aco. I shall haf two boitions, mind you. 'Twenty! cried Paul. 'No, said Darco.
Thousands and thousands of insects were threading the silence with their shrill insistent voices. The repeated wail, harsh, prolonged, eerie, of some strange wild creature, bird or beast, came down from the forest of the Gnisi. At his feet, on the troubled surface of the Aco, the stars, reflected and distorted, shone like broken spearheads.
No, certainly not. The idea was preposterous. "Nevertheless," said Peter, "it's a long while since I have darkened the doors of Ventirose. And a poor excuse is better than none. And anyhow, the Cardinal will be glad to have his snuff." The ladder-bridge was in its place. He crossed the Aco.
"Yes, now you may bring me my coffee only, let it be tea. When your coffee is coffee it keeps me awake at night." Marietta trudged back to her kitchen, nodding at the sky. The next afternoon, however, the Duchessa di Santangiolo appeared on the opposite bank of the tumultuous Aco. Peter happened to be engaged in the amiable pastime of tossing bread-crumbs to his goldfinches.
"Ques aco? What's the stir? What's the matter with you?" exclaimed Captain Barbassou, coming out of the 'tweendecks. "About time you did turn up, captain! Quick, quick, arm your men!" "Eh, what for? dash it all!" "Why, can't you see?" "See what?" "There, before you, the corsairs" Captain Barbassou stared, bewildered.
Word Of The Day