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I beg of you, kinsman, to hear me with great attention. "The Tuscan branch of our family produced some excellent representatives, among whom should be named Jacopo di Buonaparte, who witnessed the sack of Rome in 1527 and wrote an account of that event, also Niccolò, author of a Comedy entitled La Vedova that was declared the work of another Terence.

And soon we ran in between lines of white and pink villas edged with rows of planes drenched still with dews and the night mists, among bullock-carts and queer shabby little vetture, everything looking light and elfin in the brisk sunshine and autumn bite into the barrel-like station, and I into the arms, say rather the arm-chair, of Signora Vedova Paolini, chattiest and most motherly of landladies.

I cannot assert that you are performing an act of charity to mankind, but I can at least assure you that you are doing more for me than if you had settled my accounts with Messr. Cook and Sons, or Signora Vedova Paolini, my esteemed landlady. A writer who is worth anything accumulates more than he gives off, and never lives up to his income.

The hour for action had arrived. Non si schifo di ardere una nobile donna Vedova, veterana, in una torre. Per tale crudeltade li Romani furo piu irati," &c. "I have dreamed a dream," cried Rienzi, leaping from his bed. "The lion-hearted Boniface, foe and victim of the Colonna, hath appeared to me, and promised victory. "O, Rienzi! today?" "Yes! hearken to the bell hearken to the trumpet.

"For all the attention she gives it, the water might be undermining her property on both sides." "That old dowager ?" repeated Marietta, blank. "That old widow woman my landlady the Duchessa Vedova di Santangiolo." "She is not very old only twenty-six, twenty-seven," said Marietta. "Don't try to persuade me that she is n't old enough to know better," retorted Peter, sternly.