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Let me see; your birthday's next week, isn't it? How about arranging something in the nature of a conversazione, or what not?" "I hope," said Mrs. Mills, escorting him through the shop, "that, later on, you'll do your best to make her happy." "But it's her," protested Bulpert, "it's her that's got to make me happy."
"Piccola, piccola! com e cortese! another invitation from M. Louvier for next Saturday, conversazione." This was said in Italian by an elderly lady bursting noisily into the room, elderly, yet with a youthful expression of face, owing perhaps to a pair of very vivacious black eyes.
The jubilee will take the form of a conversazione, a banquet, and a general exhibition, occupying every room of the place except two. South Kensington authorities are sending us six cases of examples of fabrics, pottery, etc., and about sixty frames of pictures, drawings, etc. The letter was sent in due time, and acknowledged with grateful thanks. Mr.
The result of this conversation was a conversazione, which certainly was on a much better scale, and better attended than the one collected by Doctor Feasible. Doctor Plausible had pumped a mutual acquaintance as to the merits of his rival, and had set to work with great diligence.
Saying unto them, Lo! the Queen is become Patron of the Rowland Hill Memorial and Benevolent Fund, and of the conversazione in the museum; and we the Executive Committee bid you, from the lowest even to the highest, to join with us at the tenth hour of the conversazione in a great shouting to praise the name of the Queen our patron.
This last brings Carpaccio into closer comparison with the later Venetian painters, being in the nature of a Santa Conversazione, where the holy personages are grouped in some definite relation to each other, and not independent figures. The beautiful Portrait of a Poet in the National Gallery has been attributed both to Giorgione and to Titian.
Delighted guffaws, uproarious laughter, explosions of mirth, interrupted this witty reference to the delays in construction. The speaker smiled at ease. His eyes glinted. He knew his audience, held it consummately, and went on. In the afternoon there was a conversazione, or reception, for the lunchers and also for the outer fringe of the city's solid respectability.
Iola took the letters, and, after reading one of them, said: "Miss Delany and Harry will be here on Wednesday; and this one is an invitation which also adds to my enjoyment." "What is it?" asked Marie; "an invitation to a hop or a german?" "No; but something which I value far more. We are all invited to Mr. Stillman's to a conversazione." "What is the object?"
"Excellent! most excellent!" cried the doctor, rubbing his hand; "now we shall do." Newton, who had some curiosity to see a conversazione, which to him was a terra incognita, did not fail to go at the appointed hour. He was ushered upstairs into the drawing-room, at the door of which he was received by Mrs Plausible, in blue and silver.
Here in the sacred shade the old women were knitting, gossipping, yawning, shuffling about; here the children were romping and "larking"; here, in a manner, were the open parlour, the nursery, the kindergarten and the <i>conversazione</i> of the poor. This is everywhere the case by the southern sea.
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