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She is not simpatica to me, that is all." "But what on earth put it into your head, Paolina mia, to say that she was not thinking of me when she was singing her part? Why should she think of me or of anybody else, except the primo tenore, who was singing with her? What is it you mean?" said Ludovico, much puzzled.
The American men make it easy for the rest of us they are what you call curtain raisers in the play of love. They keep the gallery busy until the entrance of the hero. I hope she is not a beauty." "Per Bacco, how you do talk!" interrupted the prince. "I have no chance to answer. Miss Randolph is not a beauty; but she is simpatica; she has an air, a chic."
"I think I prefer her to the Contessa after all," said Giacomo that afternoon to Assunta as he was beating the salad dressing for dinner. "She is simpatica! It is wonderful how she understands, though she cannot yet talk much. But her eyes speak." They served her dinner with special care that night, for kindness to an unfortunate fellow peasant had won what still needed winning of their hearts.
Nekrovitch's wife, a Russian like himself, had been a student of medicine at the Russian University until, along with her husband, she had been compelled to take flight from the attentions of the Russian police. She was a curly-headed brunette, with bright hazel eyes and a vivacious manner; a very intelligent and highly "simpatica" woman, as the Italians would put it.
"What is the `but, anima mia? I confess I thought it perfect." "So I suppose it was. But I think that perhaps I should have had more pleasure in hearing a less magnificent singer, who was more simpatica to me. I can't help it, but I do not like her; and I am sure I can't tell why.
At the fair, and on Noche buena, she fills her carriage with the cheap toys and sweetmeats which mean so much to Spanish children, and she must be a veritable fairy godmother to those who come within her circle. She takes a close personal interest in many sisterhoods and societies for the help of the poor. In a word, she is muy simpática and muy Española. What could one say more?
Both of them are obvious dwellers in the valley of the shadow of books. 'Is Miss Yule such a fright then? asked Maud. 'A fright! Not at all. A good example of the modern literary girl. I suppose you have the oddest old-fashioned ideas of such people. No, I rather like the look of her. Simpatica, I should think, as that ass Whelpdale would say.
A moment or two elapsed before she said smoothly: "Oh, the Prince is enchanted at the idea. He danced with you at Court and finds you molto simpatica. It is a great name, my dear, that he has to offer you " and then with a condescension, yet a courteousness that prevented offense: "We shall all be willing, nay, delighted, to receive you with open arms.
He kissed Hermione's hand again, but he did not try to take Vere's. "Good-night," Hermione said. A glance at Artois had told her much that he was thinking. "Good-night, Monsieur Emile," said Vere. "Good-night, Marchese. Buona pesca!" She turned and followed her mother into the house. "Che simpatica!" It was the Marchesino's voice, breathing the words through a sigh: "Che simpatica Signorina!"
France, after Italy, appeared in the language of the latter country poco simpatica; and I thought it necessary, for reasons now inconceivable, to read the Figaro, which was filled with descriptions of the horrible Troppmann, the murderer of the famille Kink. Troppmann, Kink, le crime de Pantin the very names that figured in this episode seemed to wave me back.
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