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"I came in here because I heard most beautiful music, and I thought it might be the Santa Maria singing to the Bambinetto, since it is his birthday or will be to-morrow; and I thought I did not mean to do wrong, but I thought maybe if I could see the Gesù Santissimo once, only once, I should never be tired nor cold nor sad-hearted any more.
The thrilling notes were still falling upon her ear with caressing sweetness; but they seemed to come from beyond, from far beyond. Before her she saw more doors. Perhaps if she slipped through these she might come in sight of the owner of the voice. "It is the Santa Maria," murmured Nina to her heart. "And she is singing to the Bambinetto, to the Santissimo Bambino.
For it is said that one day Our Lord was walking with Sampietro in Paradise, as the Padrone may do with his Fattore, when after a while He said, not as complaining exactly but as stating a fact, "Sampietro, this place is going down!" Here Sampietro, who is always impetuous and knew very well what He meant, dared to interrupt, "Il Santissimo can't blame me," said he huffily.
Besides the general ugliness, the household presented the picture of misery, for the 'scopatore santissimo' and his numerous family were obliged to live on two hundred Roman crowns a year, and as there are no perquisites attached to the office of apostolic sweeper, he was compelled to furnish all needs out of this slender sum. In spite of that Momolo was a most generous man.
From the Scala Santa in the Lateran I went to see the Santissimo Bambino in the church of Ara Cæli, on the Capitol. This church is squatted on the spot where stood the temple of Jupiter Ferretrius of old. It is one of the largest churches in Rome, and is unquestionably the ugliest.
She lay dead in the street for hours before they took her away." "Santissimo Dio! Is this true?" "Yes." "Gemma I never knew it " His face was greatly altered now, and he had to moisten his lips before he could speak. "I could have forgiven that," Edna said tremulously after a while. "But not yesterday. Your kisses are too cheap, Filippo." "Oh," he said hoarsely. "So Gemma's cousin saw that too.
But, somehow or other, I have wandered strangely from my subject. Scusi, but what has all this to do with the Bambino? The Santissimo Bambino is a very round-faced and expressionless doll, carved, as the legend goes, from a tree on the Mount of Olives, by a Franciscan pilgrim, and painted by Saint Luke while the pilgrim slept.
I asked Winckelmann to come and eat polenta with the scopatore santissimo, and told my brother to shew him the way; and I then called on the Marquis Belloni, my banker, to look into my accounts, and to get a letter of credit on the firm at Naples, who were his agents. I still had two hundred thousand francs: I had jewellery worth thirty thousand francs, and fifty thousand florins at Amsterdam.
I asked Winckelmann to come and eat polenta with the scopatore santissimo, and told my brother to shew him the way; and I then called on the Marquis Belloni, my banker, to look into my accounts, and to get a letter of credit on the firm at Naples, who were his agents. I still had two hundred thousand francs: I had jewellery worth thirty thousand francs, and fifty thousand florins at Amsterdam.
"It is about me." "And the rhymes?" "They are about me." "And you have never ?" "Never, never, never!" "What, not in the garden even?" "No, never, I tell you. Only my hand." "Your hand pouf! The nightingales sing there, I suppose." "All night." "And there is moonlight?" "Floods of moonlight." "Dio! Dio santissimo!" cried Nannina, striking her friend on the knee, "you must be out of this, Ippolita!
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