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But I should think even he would not have the audacity to bring her to the Grassinis'." "They wouldn't receive her. Signora Grassini is not the woman to do unconventional things of that kind. But I wanted to hear about Signor Rivarez as a satirist, not as a man.
He even talked about going downstairs; but Riccardo merely laughed at the suggestion and asked whether he would like a tramp across the valley to Fiesole to start with. "You might go and call on the Grassinis for a change," he added wickedly. "I'm sure madame would be delighted to see you, especially now, when you look so pale and interesting." The Gadfly clasped his hands with a tragic gesture.
To all invitations he replied with the same courteous but positive refusal, saying that his health was bad and his time fully occupied, and that he had neither strength nor leisure for going into society. "What omnivorous creatures those Grassinis are!" Martini said contemptuously to Gemma as they crossed the Signoria square one bright, cold Sunday morning.
I said a brutal thing to him when we first met, that night at the Grassinis'." "YOU said a brutal thing? That's hard to believe, Madonna." "It was unintentional, of course, and I was very sorry. I said something about people laughing at cripples, and he took it personally. It had never occurred to me to think of him as a cripple; he is not so badly deformed." "Of course not.
"I thought it an unfair and unkind thing to do; it put the Grassinis into a false position; and it was nothing less than cruel to the girl herself. I am sure she felt ill at ease." "You had a talk with him, didn't you? What did you think of him?" "Oh, Cesare, I didn't think anything except how glad I was to see the last of him. I never met anyone so fearfully tiring.
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