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"Ebbene, old Penelli gouty so that he can scarce move hath a visit from our great mathematician Ghetaldo, who findeth with our magnificent patron of letters a friar to whom Penelli showeth such honor limping to the door with him, as if he were a prince that Ghetaldo, wrathful at this foolish waste over a friar, asketh his name with scorn.
"But surely he has been in America these five years. A tall, dark fellow with fine teeth. Think! He is such a liar any one would remember him. Ebbene! He wrote that there were poor people in America as here, but we knew him too well to believe him." "I suppose every one knows about the marriage?" "Oh, indeed! It will unite two old families two rich families. You know the Savigni are rich also.
"There is the High Mass, twice in the month; there is the Low Mass every Monday, if you will believe me! There are the priests, for nothing Santa Maria, they are not few! The first fare in the day? always for the Madonna of the traghetto. This maledetto fare of the Madonna suffices for the Madonna's oil, I ask you? Ebbene non!
"I am quite aware of the fact," I said somewhat frigidly. In nowise daunted he went on, "Coming back just now I saw the big Nicolo the eccellenza has doubtless seen him often? he is a vine-grower, and they say he is the largest man in Naples three months since he nearly killed his brother ebbene!
"Ebbene! chi sa!" he replied, with a gay little shrug of his shoulders, yet with a sudden tenderness in his keen eyes that did not escape me. "There is a maiden my mother loves her well she is little and fair as Carmelo Neri's Teresa so high," and he laid his brown hand lightly on his breast, "her head touches just here," and he laughed.
"Ebbene," said Bratti, raising his voice to speak across the cart; "I leave you with Nello, young man, for there's no pushing my bag and basket any farther, and I have business at home. But you'll remember our bargain, because if you found Tessa without me, it was not my fault. Nello will show you my shop in the Ferravecchi, and I'll not turn my back on you."
Ebbene San Marco might see many of us wise, old fools choosing a king for a son-in-law, if one came our way to beg the favor. And Messer Andrea hath it that King Janus is full winsome. One should not be hard upon Marco Cornaro it is not the first alliance that his noble house hath made with royalty. May happy fortune befall the maid who is verily charming and of a consummate dignity."
Prince Sovrani took the letter from Bonpre's hand and read it in silence. "Yes I have heard about it already," he said, "And if you indeed know nothing, it is strange! But can you not remember is there no clue to such a report? Were there no sick children brought to you . . . ?" "Ebbene!
"Pietro Mostajo, you have betrayed me!" hissed the infuriated signor in the ear of his servant, shaking him convulsively by the arm. "Tell me quickly what has happened! Tremble, stupid coward! the Superintendent of Lucca shall know who you are!" "Ebbene che sia!" answered Julio. "Then the Signor Geronimo shall also know who hired Bufferio to assassinate him."
"Signorina Eve," said he then, "I went that I might worship with you." But Eve had no reply. "My prayer mounted with yours, may he forgive, il padre mio," said Luigi. "Ebbene! It is not lovely there. It is cold. Your heaven would be a dreary place, perhaps. Come rather to mine!"
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