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There's an example again of simple souls. On the contrary that stab in the back touch was quite in keeping with those italianos though candidly he was none the less free to admit those icecreamers and friers in the fish way not to mention the chip potato variety and so forth over in little Italy there near the Coombe were sober thrifty hardworking fellows except perhaps a bit too given to pothunting the harmless necessary animal of the feline persuasion of others at night so as to have a good old succulent tuckin with garlic de rigueur off him or her next day on the quiet and, he added, on the cheap.
When her nerves were on edge, this simple man's words ended the crisis in a flood of tears. With whom could he talk about her better? "We will dine together, Pepe; we will go to the Italianos a Roman banquet, ravioli, piccata, anything you want and a bottle of Chianti or two, as many as you can drink, and at the end sparkling Asti, better than champagne. Does that suit you, old man?"
It was still crowded by the enemy, who had now thrown down their arms, and endeavoured to excite our pity by virtue of their being "Pauvres Italianos;" but our men had, somehow, imbibed a horrible antipathy to the Italians, and every appeal they made in that name was invariably answered with, "You're Italians, are you? then, d n you, here's a shot for you;" and the action instantly followed the word.
I do believe, that, if Dame Nature herself should apply for a school, some of these wise Dogberries would report her "unqualyfide." I will not murder my pretty pet. We will find something better and braver than all that, my little Alice! Confound your Italianos! the birds shall be the music-masters of my tiny dame. Moonrise, and sunset, and the autumnal woods shall teach her tint and tone.
He probably had some direct knowledge of the Italians, for he writes: Liamos.... .... os pastores italianos Do bom velho Sanazarro. He may also have been influenced by Encina, most of whose work had already appeared. The first and foremost of those who deliberately based their style on the Italian was Garcilaso de la Vega, whose pastoral work dates from about 1526.
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