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He suddenly got up, and glass in hand all the officers had been drinking hard, and the cloth before them was crowded with bottles approached the table at which Gemma was sitting.
"Al suo comodo è pronto," she said, referring to the dinner, and hurried away again to dish up the veal cutlets. The young man contrived to remain behind in the salotto for a moment and to keep Gemma with him. Olive looked at them as they took their places at table, and she understood that the girl had had to submit to some caress.
Andrea and Gemma sat together, a little pinched, I thought, but decent and self-contained, like mourners who expect to inherit. Donna Marianna drooped near them, with something black over her head and her face dim with weeping. Roberto received me calmly and then turned to his sister. "Go fetch my wife," he said. While she was gone there was silence.
1 First, as Gemma Frisius reciteth, there went from Europe three brethren through this passage: whereof it tooke the name of Fretum trium fratrum.
In the ensuing silence, which quivered from that cry, there stole into the heart of Madonna Gemma an emotion more precious, just then, than the peace that follows absolution a new-born sense of feminine dignity, a glorious blossoming of pride, commingled with the tenderness of an immeasurable gratitude. About to part for the night, they exchanged a look of tremulous solemnity.
First, as Gemma Frisius reciteth, there went from Europe three brethren though this passage: whereof it took the name of Fretum trium fratrum. And Pliny upon the same saith that it is no marvel, though there be sea by the north, where there is such abundance of moisture; which argueth, that he doubted not of a navigable passage that way, through which those Indians came.
Dance with me, little dove! 'But I must act, though, I mustn't waste time, he cried aloud jumped up and saw Pantaleone facing him with a note in his hand. 'I knocked several times, but you did not answer; I thought you weren't at home, said the old man, as he gave him the note. 'From Signorina Gemma. Sanin took the note, mechanically, as they say, tore it open, and read it.
He has written a horrible letter, saying that you have told about the steamers, and got him arrested. It's perfectly absurd, of course; everyone that knows you sees that; it's only the people who don't know you that have been upset by it. Really, that's what I came here for to tell you that no one in our group believes a word of it." "Gemma! But it's it's true!"
Then she pulled away her hand and ran into the house. When the door had closed behind her he stooped and picked up the spray of cypress which had fallen from her breast. ARTHUR went back to his lodgings feeling as though he had wings. He was absolutely, cloudlessly happy. At the meeting there had been hints of preparations for armed insurrection; and now Gemma was a comrade, and he loved her.
But I fervently wished to rid myself of these glasses ever since I heard that with eye exercises one can improve one's eyesight. In fact, I had begun doing eye exercises with Sister Gemma, a Medical Mission Sister who is associated with my parents' work.
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