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And then, just when he had said to himself "E' finito!" the irrevocable was at hand, the moment of delirium in which all things that should have been remembered were forgotten. What had led him? What spirit of evil? Or had he been led at all? Had not he rather deliberately forced his way to the tragic goal whither, through all these sunlit days, these starry nights, his feet had been tending?
Indeed she put down an Italian grammar when he entered the drawing-room, and covered it up with the essays of Antonio Caporelli. This possibly had some connection with the fact that she had encouraged Olga last night with regard to her pronunciation. "Ben arrivato, Georgio," she said. "Ho finito il libro di Antonio Caporelli quanta memento. E magnifico!"
The theatres are all closed. Lent has come, bringing its season of sadness; and the gay world of strangers is flocking down to Naples. Eh, Signore! Finito il nostro carnovale. Adesso e il carnovale dei preti: "Our carnival is over, and that of the priests has come."
Maurice murmured. It seemed to him that the last day of his wild youth was at an end. "E' finito!" he repeated. But there was still an hour. And who can tell what an hour will bring forth? It was nearly two o'clock in the morning when Maurice and Gaspare said good-bye to Maddalena and her father on the road by Isola Bella.
The sound of the grinding organ and of the shepherd boy's flute ceased in the dancing-room, and the crowd within rushed out into the market-place. "Signorino! Signorino! Come with me! We cannot see properly here! I know where to go. There will be wheels of fire, and masses of flowers, and a picture of the Regina Margherita. Presto! Presto!" Gaspare had hold of Maurice by the arm. "E' finito!"
Wider, il quale e un galant' uomo come lei melo scrisse, ed jeri abbiamo finito il carnavale da lui, cenardo da lui e poi ballammo ed andammo colle perle in compagnie nel ridotto nuovo, che mi piacque assai. Quando sto dal Sign. Wider e guardando fuori della finestra vedo la casa dove lei abito quando lei fu in Venezia. Il nuovo non so niente. Venezia mi piace assai.
Non è finito, the sacristan, himself one of the most delightful and simple souls in this little forgotten city, will tell you it is not finished; and indeed, the alteration that was made in the church in the early part of the fourteenth century when the nave was lengthened and the roof raised was never completed; and you may still see where, through so many centuries, that which was so well begun has awaited a second S. Frediano.
"And now, signorino," Gaspare concluded, "they are all laughing at him in Marechiaro. He dare not show himself any more in the Piazza. When a man cannot go any more into the Piazza Madonna!" He shrugged his shoulders and spread out his hands in a gesture of contemptuous pity. "E' finito!" he exclaimed. "Certo!" said Maurice. He was resolved that he would never be in such a case.
When seated, I commenced uttering a few phrases of condolence, but he replied to me in Turkish. This mode of conversing had its difficulties, so he, seeing that I could not understand him, started off into a Sabir or Italianised French, pronounced in an accent which I will not attempt to describe. "Povera Eccellenza Barbassou-Pacha! finito morto?"
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