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But on this as on the other occasions in his life when he was to be threatened with ghostly terrors, he did not belie the name of 'Re Galantuomo, which he had written down as his profession when filling up the papers of the first census taken after his accession a jest that gave him the title he will ever be known by.
Indeed, if I'd tell you, who'd give me the guarantee that you wouldn't go ahead and tell the tribunal all about it? You look like a galantuomo; but who's still trustworthy, nowadays? One in a thousand, none in a hundred. No offence, Signore Andrea, but you might know what we say here in Venice: "With lies and tricks you will not die, With tricks and lies you will get by."
His prospective father-in-law had a command of it, he said, that put him at a disadvantage in any discussion; besides which well, besides which he had made to the girl the observation that positively, of all his observations yet, had most finely touched her. "You know I think he's a REAL galantuomo 'and no mistake. There are plenty of sham ones about.
What was supremely grotesque, in fact, was the essential opposition of theories as if a galantuomo, as HE at least constitutionally conceived galantuomini, could do anything BUT blush to "go about" at such a rate with such a person as Mrs. Verver in a state of childlike innocence, the state of our primitive parents before the Fall.
Il Re Galantuomo, that Piedmontese hunter, Vittorio Emanuele, wished to liberate Venice from the grasp of Austria, to wrest temporal power from the Vatican, and to send the French troops back to France. Well, he accomplished all these things, and both my father and the prince were with him up to the time he entered the Quirinal. After victory, peace.
There seemed also little doubt that London was the centre of preparation, though the project and the projectors were involved in much, mystery. "They want money," said the monsignore; "that we know, and that is now our best chance. The Aspromonte expedition drained their private resources; and as for further aid, that is out of the question; the galantuomo is bankrupt.
"Count Gorka said that your Excellency asked him to await you here," replied the man, with a timidity rendered all the more comical by the formidable cut of his gray moustache and his imperial, which made him a caricature of the late King Victor Emmanuel. He had served in '59 under the Galantuomo, and he paid the homage of a veteran of Solferino to that glorious memory.
To which his reply had been just of the happiest. "I don't feel, my dear, if you really want to know, that anything much can now either hurt me or help me. Such as I am but you'll see for yourself. Say, however, I am a galantuomo which I devoutly hope: I'm like a chicken, at best, chopped up and smothered in sauce; cooked down as a creme de volaille, with half the parts left out.
"Do you mean to ask the old gentleman's consent before eloping with his daughter? You are a little donkey, Nino, upon my word." "Donkey, or anything else you like, but I will act like a galantuomo. I will see the count, and ask him once more whether he is willing to let his daughter marry me. If not, so much the worse; he will be warned." "Look here, Nino," I said, astonished at the idea.
Michael's personal appearance were resumed, as a little feint we can only suppose, for the great question of the Church was again immediately introduced; but in the meantime Jeanne had described her visitor in terms which it is pleasant to dwell on. "He was in the form of a tres vrai prud' homme." The term is difficult to translate, as is the Galantuomo of Italy.
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