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The two men still remained on their feet. "Quick, Achille!" For the far gondola was heading for the Grand Canal. Merrihew understood now. He grasped Hillard's arm excitedly. "Follow!" commanded Hillard. "Ten lire if you can come up alongside that gondola. Can you see the number?" "It is 152, signore; Pompeo. It will be a race," doubtfully. "No matter; follow. It will be worth your while."
I wish I had it in my power to brand my sign-manual on the brazen face of this coldly callous age-brand it deep in those letters of living lire called Fame!" A look of baffled longing and un gratified ambition came into his musing eyes,-his strong, shapely white hand clenched nervously, as though it grasped some unseen yet perfectly tangible substance.
An important addition was the reënactment of the customs rebates on shipbuilding materials. No bounty was hereafter to be allowed to vessels built in Italian yards for foreigners. The customs drawbacks were abrogated, and in place of them was granted a bounty of five lire per quintal of metal used in repairs.
There was Annina Giannini; she had five thousand lire, and more to come, and now she is married to a doctor in Lucca. I gave her up for you, and you are dust of the streets." Gemma flinched then as though he had struck her. The insult was flagrant, and it was time to make an end.
Lately, he had undertaken, in behalf of a house which published journals and books in parts, to write upon the parcels the names and addresses of their subscribers, and he earned three lire for every five hundred of these paper wrappers, written in large and regular characters. But this work wearied him, and he often complained of it to his family at dinner. Sixty cents.
"We must look for them. They are certain to have gone with the crowd." They followed the people into the Mercato. The burning balloon dropped down and disappeared. "It has fallen into the Rettifilo!" cried a young man close to them. "Macche!" exclaimed his companion. "I will bet you five lire " He gesticulated furiously. "We shall never find them," Hermione said. "We will try to find them."
And as they walked on the smell of the camp lire, and the tainted odor that emanates from a camp's garbage dump grew stronger to their nostrils. Then presently the camp itself loomed up at the very side of the wood road for which the Canadian lumberman was headed. A single wall tent of large proportions was the most conspicuous thing about the place.
If Gino would have sold his wife for a thousand lire, for how much less would he not sell his child? It was just a commercial transaction. Why should it interfere with other things? His eyes were fixed on the towers again, just as they had been fixed when he drove with Miss Abbott. But this time his thoughts were pleasanter, for he had no such grave business on his mind.
Five hundred Roman crowns are three thousand lire, and three thousand lire are a fortune for two poor orphans who are going to be married. "'Yes, it is very annoying, said Vampa; 'but we have not seen him. "Then the carbineers scoured the country in different directions, but in vain; then, after a time, they disappeared. Vampa then removed the stone, and Cucumetto came out.
Sir George shrugged his shoulders for answer, and turning from the table the servant had withdrawn brushed the crumbs from his breeches, and sat staring at the lire, his glass in his hand. 'I suppose it will come to that presently, he said, sipping his wine. 'Very soon, the doctor answered, drily, 'unless I am in error. Sir George looked at him. 'Come, doctor! he said. 'You know something!
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