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"Excellenza!" exclaimed the man, kneeling, and raising the prince's doublet to his lips, "I will bear it in mind, and serve you faithfully." "I believe you, my brave! Rise and tell me your name." "Antonio, signor." "Antonio. Well, Antonio, you accompany me to the regatta to-day." "My lord," said Conrad, entering the room, "your gondola is below, and his highness the Elector of Bavaria is here."
Our interest in you, not less than in the work itself, makes us anxious to be assured of your success. The people, too, why, they are shouting now. Say the exact hour when you will be ready." "To-morrow, Excellenza, if you listen for it, or should you not, all the same strange music will be heard.
"We are Christians," interrupted the servant, not without dignity. "Very well, very well," she cried. "Do what you please, call whom you choose, but Henrica can't stay here. Contagion in the house, the plague, a black tablet." "Excellenza is disturbing herself unnecessarily. Let us first hear what the doctor says." "I won't hear him; I can't bear the plague and the small-pox.
"It is a most masterly piece, by our lady," said the duke, looking first upon the painting and then at Carlton, as if half in doubt as to the truth of the young American's assertion. "Your excellenza is pleased to honor me," said Carlton, with a respectful inclination of the head. "If the piece be thine, it is well merited," continued the duke.
He said gravely, people like your Excellenza do not use to write long letters upon trifles. I assured him, that if he understood English, I would let him read my letter. He replied, with a mysterious smile, if I did understand English, I should not understand what you have written, except you would give me the key, which I durst not presume to ask. What key?
'You have a good memory, old Carlo, said Montoni: 'it is there-about; and how hast thou contrived to live so long? 'A-well-a-day, sir, with much ado; the cold winds, that blow through the castle in winter, are almost too much for me; and I thought sometimes of asking your excellenza to let me leave the mountains, and go down into the lowlands.
'You shall know no more, then; and he was going, though slowly, when Emily's anxiety, overcoming the resentment and fear, which the man's behaviour had roused, she desired him to stay, and bade Annette retire. 'The Signora is alive, said he, 'for me. She is my prisoner, though; his excellenza has shut her up in the chamber over the great gates of the court, and I have the charge of her.
Here comes a journalist," said Giardini, as a man came in dressed in the absurd way which used to be attributed to a poet in a garret; his coat was threadbare, his boots split, his hat shiny, and his overcoat deplorably ancient. "Excellenza, that poor man is full of talent, and incorruptibly honest. He was born into the wrong times, for he tells the truth to everybody; no one can endure him.
"No more than his merit deserves." Signor Latrezzi bowed, but said nothing. "Signor, you have observed his intimacy with Florinda?" "Excellenza, yes." "A fine couple they would make." "Does your excellenza think so?" "To be sure I do; and if I mistake not, so does the lady." "I know not that, excellenza." "Ask her then, Signor Latrezzi.
Either I cannot read the language of her fair face, or she loves the artist." "But he's a foreigner, excellenza." "What of that?" "Nothing, save that Florinda is nobly born, and bears some of the best and oldest blood of Italy." "Time will settle the matter," said the duke, turning away.
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