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"We call this treatment of S. Calogero an act of faith," said the sceptical guard, "and yet when a gambler puts a few soldi on any number he may have dreamt of, we call it superstition.
"The gentleman is pleased to joke! May it rain soldi tomorrow." "A little shower, possibly. But not a cloud-burst, like today. . . ." As to the flying monk, there is no doubt whatever that he deserved his name. He flew. Being a monk, these feats of his were naturally confined to convents and their immediate surroundings, but that does not alter the facts of the case.
Damsels were no longer coquettish under the military glance, but hurried by in couples; and there was much scowling mixed with derisive servility, throughout the city, hard to be endured without that hostile state of the spirit which is the military mind's refuge in such cases. Itinerant musicians, and none but this fry, continued to be attentive to the dispensers of soldi.
If thou hadst had the sense to bring thy boat to clear away the rubbish, instead of thinking there are only fish in the world, thou mightest have had the luck to find it; it must be better than working lace bobbins all the week for a handful of soldi that wouldn't buy one macaroni!" "Peace, then, with thy babble!"
It runs as follows: "Honoured Sir. In Venice, this tenth day of September.... Ten ducats to Rinaldo Corsini. Five ducats to Messer Loredan for the rent of the house. For two stools, a table to eat on, and a coffer, half a ducat. Eight soldi for straw. Forty soldi for the hire of the bed. Three ducats to Bondino for the journey to Venice with boats. Twenty soldi to Piloto for a pair of shoes.
"The fact that those old aqueducts of yours have been bringing down the water to sparkle and ripple in Roman streets ever since." "Idealissimo! And the Trevi of Bernini I hope you threw the soldi, so that you must come back to Rome!" "We weren't quite sure which it was," I responded, "so poppa threw soldi into all of them, to make certain.
So Maddalena had her face towards the land, while his was set towards the open sea. "It isn't having many soldi that makes happiness," he went on. "Gaspare thinks it is, and Lucrezia, and I dare say your father would " "Oh yes, signore! In Sicily we all think so!" "And so they do in England. But it isn't true." "But if you have many soldi you can do anything." He shook his head. "No you can't.
On experiment I could not see the bones, but this circumstance did not cause me to doubt their presence, particularly as I did see upon the screen a great number of coins offered for the repose of the martyrs' souls. I threw down some soldi, and thus enthralled the sacristan.
"But surely," I said, "you do not always win when you follow that rule?" "I have played every week for twenty years," said the brigadier, "and have only won four times; but I always hope." "One can hope," I said, "without spending any soldi." Here the guard who believed in the moth interposed, seeing that I did not know much about it "It is no use hoping unless you do something.
"I have two soldi, also," said another girl, dressed in red; "we shall certainly find thirty soldi among the whole of us"; and then they began to call out: "Amalia! Luigia! Annina! A soldo. Who has any soldi? Bring your soldi here!"
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