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'Signorina, rejoined Zotti, a fat little round-headed man, with vivacious starting brown eyes, 'I have only to tell her to do a thing I pull a dog by the collar; be it said with reverence. 'However, I am very glad to see you both such good friends. 'Yes, signorina, we are good friends till we quarrel again. I regret to observe to you that the respectable lady is incurably suspicious.
He informed her that he had laid in a stock of flour, in the expectation that Carlo Alberto would defend the city: The Milanese were ready to aid him, though some, as Zotti confessed, had ceased to effervesce; and a great number who were perfectly ready to fight regarded his tardy appeal to Italian patriotism very coldly. Zotti set out in person to discover Giacinta.
'My mother thinks him a perfect web of plots, Vittoria explained the case between them, laughing, to Ammiani; 'and Zotti is persuaded that she is an inveterate schemer. They are both entirely innocent, only they are both excessively timid. Out of that it grows.
"Zotti has had something to think of during the last three weeks," said Vittoria, touching him kindly on the arm. The confectioner lifted his fingers and his big brown eyes after them, expressive of the unutterable thoughts.
Meanwhile he let lodgings. It was in the house of this famous confectioner Zotti that Vittoria and her mother had lived after leaving England for Italy. As Vittoria came under the fretted shadow of the cathedral, she perceived her mother standing with Zotti at the house- door, though the night was far advanced. She laughed, and walked less hurriedly. Ammiani now asked her if she had been alarmed.
At the same time Zotti whispered: 'Signorina, I have kept the minestra hot for your supper; come in, come in. And, little things, little dainty bits! do you live in Zotti's house for nothing? Sweetest delicacies that make the tongue run a stream! just notions of a taste the palate smacks and forgets; the soul seizes and remembers! 'Oh, such seductions! Vittoria exclaimed.
'I hope I am not too hungry to discriminate! Zotti I see Monte Rosa. 'Signorina, you are pleased to say so when you are famishing. It is because the enthusiastic confectioner looked deep and oblique, as one who combined a remarkable subtlety of insight with profound reflection; 'it is because the lighter you get the higher you mount; up like an eagle of the peaks!
'Signorina, rejoined Zotti, a fat little round-headed man, with vivacious starting brown eyes, 'I have only to tell her to do a thing I pull a dog by the collar; be it said with reverence. 'However, I am very glad to see you both such good friends. 'Yes, signorina, we are good friends till we quarrel again. I regret to observe to you that the respectable lady is incurably suspicious.
Of me Zotti! Mother of heaven! 'It is you that are suspicious of me, sir, retorted madame. 'Of me, of all persons! It's "tell me this, tell me that," all day with you; and because I can't answer, you are angry. 'Behold! the signora speaks English; we have quarrelled again, said Zotti.
'It is, Zotti pursued his idea, with fingers picturesquely twirling in a spider-like distension; 'it is like the damned, and they have but a crumb of a chance of Paradise, and down swoops St. Peter and has them in the gates fast! You are worthy of all that a man can do for you, signorina. Let him study, let him work, let him invent, you are worthy of all.
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