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He evidently remembered well his sojourn with us years ago, and, moreover, remembered it with pleasure; for now he grasped the old Squire's hand warmly and then, laughing joyously, held grandmother Ruth's in both his own. "But where have you been all this time?" the old Squire exclaimed. "I live now in Boston. Not long did I sell the images. I leave my padrone.
They seemed to be in strong conversation, but directly Artois appeared there was a silence, and they all turned and stared at him as if in wonder. Then Gaspare came forward and took off his hat. The boy looked haggard with grief, and angry and obstinate, desperately obstinate. "Signore," he said. "You know my padrone! Tell them " But the Pretore interrupted him with an air of importance.
He did not remember his former life, before the padrone came. Everything seemed to have begun for him on that morning when the train with the padrone and the padrona in it ran into the station of Cattaro. And now everything seemed to have finished. Artois did not say any more to him, but walked slowly up the mountain leaning on his stick.
Angiolino!" "Sissignora," murmured the boy. "Tell me about Signor Graziano." "He is our padrone; he is never here." "But he is coming to-day. Wake up, Angiolino. I tell you he is on the way!" "Between life and death there are so many combinations," drawled the boy, with Tuscan incredulity and sententiousness. "Ah!" cried the girl, with a little shiver of impatience. "Is he young?" "Chè!"
Having gained the farther side, he put on his stockings and boots, grasped his stick, and began to climb upward through the thickly growing trees towards the house of the sirens. His instinct had told him upon the terrace that the padrone was there. Uneducated people have often marvellously retentive memories for the things of every-day life.
Brigitta turns aside, puts her tongue in her cheek, and glances maliciously at Carlotta, who nods. "How do you know how your master is made, Cassandra mia?" asks Brigitta, looking round, with a short laugh. "Because I have eyes in my head," replies Cassandra, defiantly. "My master, the padrone of the Pelican Hotel, is not a man one sees every day in the week!"
A padrone had brought them with nine other boys from Naples to sell plaster images for him; we gathered that this man, who lived in Portland, cast the images himself. The only English words he had taught them were "ten cent," "twenty-five cent" and "fifty cent" the prices of the plaster casts.
Such a leader is almost always under the patronage of a "boss" in New York or a 'padrone' in Italy, who uses his influence to protect the members of the gang when in legal difficulties and find them jobs when out of work and in need of funds. Thus the "boss" can rely on the gang's assistance in elections in return for favors at other times.
I slipped below into the engine-room, and found Marston looking very sober. 'Kennedy, said he, 'the 'Ercolano' will be somebody's coffin before to-morrow morning, I'm afraid. I'm carrying more steam than is prudent or safe, and the padrone has just sent orders to put on more. We are not making a mile an hour, he says; and our only chance is to get under the lee of the land.
It was not hard to persuade him that he had better come home with her; and she had him there, tucked away with his few poor belongings, in the most comfortable room the padrone could imagine, when the vice-consul came in the evening. "He says he thinks he can go, now," she ended, when she had told the vice-consul. "And I know he can. It wasn't anything but poor living."
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