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Bravissima! fell to clapping his hands in the wildest ecstasy. Walden, less demonstrative, was far more moved. Something quite new and strange to his long fixed habit and temperament had insidiously crept over him, and being well accustomed to self-analysis, he was conscious of the fact, and uneasy at finding himself in the grip of an emotion to which he could give no name.
She stood in the little dell which the stream had made, Walter in her arms her figure thrown back, so as to poise the child's weight. Her right hand kept firm hold of Guy, who was paddling barefoot in the stream: Edwin, the only one of the boys who never gave any trouble, was soberly digging away, beside little Muriel. The lady clapped her hands. "Brava! bravissima! a charming family picture, Mrs.
Kate Kearney evidently believed the former, as her heaving chest and her tremulous lip betrayed, while the cold, simpering smile on Walpole's face, and the 'brava, bravissima' in which he broke the silence, vouched how he had interpreted that show of emotion.
It was an attention so conspicuous that even the group of men in the far corner noticed and commented on it, and then they commented on Amanda and Benham, assuming an ignorance of Italian in the visitors that was only partly justifiable. "Bellissima," "bravissima," "signorina," "Inglesa," one need not be born in Italy to understand such words as these.
Her assistant, a good-looking young man, in very white teeth and livery, sold some patent toothache drops: Solo cinque baiocchi il fiasco, S'gnore. Caper having seen the tooth extracted, cried, 'Bravissima! as if he had been at the opera, and threw some roses at the prima donna dentista, who acknowledged the applause with a bow, and requested the Signore to step up and let her draw him out.
I said to myself; 'Here is a born prima donna I will bring her out! She is the third I have brought out in my time. I shall take her to Italy when her education is sufficiently advanced, and perfect her at Milan. In that unsophisticated girl, my dear lady, you see one of the future Queens of Song. Listen! She is beginning her scales. What a voice! Brava! Brava! Bravissima!"
They want something to cool their dainty palates, but men, sir, and soldiers What's this, Bella, Bellisima? Salad French dressing and cool, too! Bravissima, my dear! How did you manage it? The olla? Why, of course! Cool anything. Cool my old head, if need be. Hey, Willett?"
'And still they watched the flickering of the blaze, And talked together of the good old days. 'Brava! 'Bravissima! 'Splendid, Polly! exclaimed the boys. 'Bell, you're a great author! 'Couldn't have done better myself give you my word! cried Jack, bowing profoundly to Bell and Polly in turn, and presenting them with bouquets of faded leaves hastily gathered from the ground.
Stowe at this time: CAMBRIDGE, February 4, 1859. MY DEAR MRS. STOWE, I certainly did mean to write you about your story, but only to cry bravissima! with the rest of the world. I intended no kind of criticism; deeming it wholly out of place, and in the nature of a wet-blanket, so long as a story is unfinished. When I got the first number in MS., I said to Mr.
"What's that?" cried Sir John, astonished, and Sir George Covert cried: "Brava! Bravissima! There speaks the Ormond through the Varick!" Walter Butler leaned forward, staring at me. "You refuse to meet me if I use our Mohawks?" And Dorothy, her voice trembling a little, picked up the word from his grinning teeth.
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