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Then in the crowd Hal encountered Jerry Minetti, and learned that another man who had been down was Farenzena, the Italian whose "fanciulla" had played with him; and yet another was Judas Apostolikas having taken his thirty pieces of silver with him into the deathtrap! People were making up lists, just as Hal was doing, by asking questions of others.
Dante describes the soul of a man as coming from the hand of God 'weeping and laughing like a little child, and Christ also saw that the soul of each one should be a guisa di fanciulla che piangendo e ridendo pargoleggia. He felt that life was changeful, fluid, active, and that to allow it to be stereotyped into any form was death.
It was not easy to understand his English, but finally Hal managed to make out the story he was telling that he was in love with a "fanciulla," and that the "fanciulla" was playing with him. He had about made up his mind that she was a coquette, and not worth bothering with, so he did not care any curses if they sent him down the canyon.
The girl who does not care to embrace opportunity is no better than a child 'Fanciulla tanto sciocca, quanto bella, as Dafne says. So, again, there is nothing ennobling in the devotion of the hero, nothing elevating in his fidelity.
"Don't fight for fanciulla, fight for check-weighman!" he concluded, with a growl. Another volunteer was a Greek labourer, a talkative young chap who had sat with Hal at lunch-time, and had given his name as Apostolikas.
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