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It was evident that there were those at Gibraltar who knew her, or mistook her for some one else. As the party reached the Commercial Square, and the main guard, like that at Waterport, turned out to do honour to the general, a man pushed forward from a little group that stood respectfully behind the party, and whispered hoarsely in Mrs. Wilders's ear "Dios mio! Cypriana! Es usted?" Cyprienne!
The new repertoire of the works of Liszt and Brahms and other composers demanded a different technic, a bigger technic. What exquisite joy it was to work for it. Yes, mio amico, work is the greatest intoxication, the greatest blessing, the greatest solace we can know. Therefore work, work, work.
Lucky I caught you this generation, before the doctors had saved your appearances. Yet, caro mio, whether it shows or not, there you once had immediate connection with the maternal blood-stream.
Many a half-suppressed exclamation of admiration, or a prefix of Bella, softens the hearts of those to whom compliments on their beauty come rarely. The other day, as I came out of the city gate of Siena, a ragged wretch, sitting, with one stump of a leg thrust obtrusively forward, in the dust of the road, called out, "Una buona passeggiata, Signorino mio!"
She laughed at my absent-mindedness, and told me to sit down on a chair by her bedside. The duke told her that I was quite pleased at having lost two thousand ducats to his bank, as the loss made me sure she loved me. "Caro mio Don Giacomo, I am sorry to hear that!
"Sometimes when the men are slaves or rebels. It is a sport the general greatly enjoys. Yet it seems very strange; at this time of night, too Dios mio! can it be possible?" "Can what be possible, Captain Guzman?" I exclaimed, in some excitement, for a terrible suspicion had crossed my mind. "Can what be possible? In Heaven's name speak out!"
"What acquaintance was that you were making signals to, eh, giovane mio?" "Some little contadina who probably mistook me for an acquaintance, for she had honoured me with a greeting." "Or who wished to begin an acquaintance," said Nello.
They say for a complete life a man must know poverty, love and war. But they don't go well together, capitan mio. No; there is no failure in my business. The little shop is doing very well." When the captain had departed Dicky called the sergeant of the jail squad and asked: "Am I preso by the military or by the civil authority?" "Surely there is no martial law in effect now, senor." "Bueno.
It had been a great affliction to him that his regiment was quartered at Albano for some months. Mio Dio! so dull was it, life had already become a burden; but now, if the Signorina was to be there, if she permitted him to make himself known to her party, what joys were in store for him. The Signorina loved to ride.
Then, with a look of ineffable peace stealing over her waxen face, Bianca rose to her full height, and, flinging her arms heavenwards, she delivered that celebrated and heartrending speech which has lived after her for so long: "Dio mio, concerto concerto!" One by one the she-goats advanced....
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