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"Eccellenza, she'll do," said the little man nodding his head with its top-heavy forehead three or four times emphatically. "If she do not make such a sensation in Ravenna as we have not known here for a long time, say that Ercole Stadione knows nothing of his profession." "Bravo! bravo!" cried the Marchese, gleefully rubbing his hands.
"I did not dream, eccellenza, that you were so happy as to have the one, or that I was so honored as to have the other." "Thou remindest me of my folly, good Gino. In aiding me on this occasion, thou wilt have thy own fortune in view, as thy efforts, like those of thy fellows, will be made in behalf of the lady to whom I have just plighted a husband's vows."
"Well," I said, "what happened next?" "Eccellenza, I could not leave him there without aid. I drew my cloak well up to my mouth and pulled my hat down over my eyes so that he could not recognize me. Then I took water from the fountain close by and dashed it on his face. He soon came to himself, and, taking me for a stranger, thanked me for my assistance, saying that he had a sudden shock.
And a license is not little to buy for a poor barcariol who would be his own man; one pays three hundred lire not less. Does it drop into one's hand with the first fare? One must belong to the Guilds it is less robbery!" "But for your gastaldo, your great man, for him it is much honor " "Eccellenza, believe it not. If the taxes are not there for the provveditori, it is the gastaldo who pays.
We all understand the bearings of these islands, which are the bearings of the whole coast down here-away; but the question is, which way the lugger was steering?" "I thought I had said, eccellenza, that she was heading across toward Ischia," answered Raoul, with an air of obtuse innocence.
I had withdrawn it by gradual degrees, leaving behind only a couple of thousand francs, for which I had no special need. I locked and strapped the valise; there was no name on it and it was scarcely any weight to carry. I took it to Andrea, who swung it easily in his right hand and said, smilingly: "Your friend is not wealthy, eccellenza, if this is all his luggage!"
"That is to go to Avellino, eccellenza?" he asked, with more alacrity than he had yet shown. "Yes," I answered. "You will place it in the hands of the good Signora Monti, for whom I have a great respect. She will take care of it till I return." "Your commands shall be obeyed, signor," he said, rapidly, as though eager to atone for his past hesitation.
I had the honour to purchase from her certain jewels, that the Eccellenza will probably redeem; and even pardon, sir I cut off and bought of her, her hair. 'Her hair! exclaimed the Chevalier, in horror. 'The miserable girl to have fallen so low! Is it with you, fellow? 'Surely, Illustrissimo.
Yet now, the Daughter of the Republic, Caterina Veneta, being left by the Will of Janus Queen of Cyprus, Venice must first uphold the rights of Caterina, and might show her Eccellenza, the Princess Carlotta, no favor that could prejudice the sovereignty of the Queen." "And then?" "And then came further pleading from Carlotta, with a new tissue of reasons.
He stood before me with his usual respectful air, but he avoided my glance, and kept his eyes studiously fixed on the pattern of the carpet. I addressed him with an air of gayety. "Ebbene, Vincenzo! Joy comes at last, you see, even to me! To-morrow I shall wed the Countess Romani the loveliest and perhaps the richest woman in Naples!" "I know it, eccellenza."
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