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Her carefully prepared phrases could get no nearer the problem she wished solved. "Ma che! agnellina mia, my little lamb!" cried the peasant woman, grasping Daphne's hand in order to kiss her fingers, "you are safe, safe with us. No Americans nor English shall dare to look at the Signorina in the presence of Giacomo and me." It was not a high wall, that is, not very high.
Two-thirds of the way the storming-party proceeded without the enemy being aware of their advance; and they might have reached the very foot of the hill without being discovered, had not Abong Mia, from excess of piety and rashness, begun most loudly to say his prayers.
And what is the use of painting a picture for the world if there is no chance to let the world see it?" Prince Pietro looked at her benevolently. "Your father was right, you think? Well, Angela mia, I think I had better be the first to own that your father was wrong! The picture is already sold; that is if you consent to sell it!" Angela turned very white. "If I consent to sell it?
There's nothing to be afraid of. You'll never make me believe that a world like this can be inhabited by anything dangerous." "Perhaps, but we mustn't forget what happened on Mars, Madonna mia. Still, there's one thing, we haven't been tackled by any aerial fleets yet." "I don't think the people here want air-ships. They can fly themselves. Look! there are a lot of them coming to meet us.
I am always imagining evils that never happen. And now, Cesare, when do you wish me to go to the convent?" I shrugged my shoulders with an air of indifference. "Your submission to my will, mia bella" I said, coldly, "is altogether charming, and flatters me much, but I am not your master not yet! Pray choose your own time, and suit your departure to your own pleasure."
I take it for granted that the duke is as full of life and spirit and joy as a man can be." "Madama Teresa mia," said Aurora, "whom are you scolding? Allow me to remind you that I expressed a wish that the duke would not prove to be unhappy." "And the wish implied a doubt," her friend retorted. "And your reference to the past was a shadow. And I will have no shadows to-day.
"Madonna mia!" exclaimed Bastianello, turning sharply round and moving away a step or two. He was in great perturbation of spirit, for he loved the girl dearly, and he began to fear that he had not done his best for Ruggiero. "But you did love him a few days ago," he said, coming back to Teresina's side. "Indeed, I never did!" she said. "Nor any one else?" asked Bastianello suddenly. "Eh!
The words, 'Brunetta mia simpatica, ti amo sempre più, sung after this fashion to Eustace's handsome partner, who puffed delicate whiffs from a Russian cigarette, and smiled her thanks, had a peculiar appropriateness. All the ladies, it may be observed in passing, had by this time lit their cigarettes.
"Perhaps, Guendalina mia but he settles a hundred and fifty thousand scudi on Flavia and her heirs for ever, the money to be paid on the signing of the contract. That does not look like pauperism. Of course, under the circumstances I agreed to do the same. It is settled on Flavia, do you understand? He does not want a penny of it, not a penny!
He taught her to falter endearments in his own tongue: he was carino, caro amico, anima mia, sovrano del mio cuor, and many other things yet more intimate. In return he gave her a homage which was not without a certain depth because it was done with foresight. He taught her to be his slave by professing himself hers, and so touching her generosity as well as her humility.
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