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Sweeping around in a wider circle from that point, we saw, beyond the Durrenstein, the snow-covered pile of the Gross-Glockner; the crimson bastions of the Rothwand appeared to the north, behind Tofana; then the white slopes that hang far away above the Zillerthal; and, nearer, the Geislerspitze, like five fingers thrust into the air; behind that, the distant Oetzthaler Mountain, and just a single white glimpse of the highest peak of the Ortler by the Engadine; nearer still we saw the vast fortress of the Sella group and the red combs of the Rosengarten; Monte Marmolata, the Queen of the Dolomites, stood before us revealed from base to peak in a bridal dress of snow; and southward we looked into the dark rugged face of La Civetta, rising sheer out of the vale of Agordo, where the Lake of Alleghe slept unseen.
The Marmolata and Civetta, as we knew by our maps, were on the side of Caprile; and the Marmarole on the side of Auronzo.
It indeed almost amounts, morally speaking, to marriage itself, and the breaking of it is looked upon socially almost as an act of infidelity to the marriage bond. A young girl who refuses to keep her engagement is called a civetta an owlet probably because owlets are used as a decoy all over the country in snaring and shooting all small birds.
Every day we saw him in the Piazza, smoking cigarettes, and waiting for us to go out that he might follow us, and Gemma would give him one look, and then cast down her eyes ... so!" Carmela caricatured her sister's affectation of unconsciousness very successfully, and looked to Olive and Carolina for applause. The servant grinned appreciation. "Yes, the signorina is very civetta.
"Why did you make her so angry? She will always hate you now. I did not know you were civetta." Olive looked startled. "Angry? What do you mean?" "Why did you speak so much to Orazio? Gemma thought you wanted to take her husband from her and she will not forgive." "Why, I could see it made her ill to look at him and that she shrank from his touch, and I did as I would be done by.
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