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"Sixteen cents for garbage like that! The Signorina would better let me make her bargains for her. Gia! Gia! No Italian lady would have paid more than eleven sous for such useless roba. It is evident that the Signorina's countrymen eat gold when at home, they think so little of casting it away!"
He confirmed my knowledge of a truth which I had found out before, namely, that the very lines which most readers believe to have flowed easily from the poet's pen are generally those which he has had the greatest difficulty in composing. "Which of your operas," I enquired, "do you like best?" "'Attilio Regolo; ma questo non vuol gia dire che sia il megliore'."
Bosio, feeling that variations were necessary, threw Rode's over in favor of those on "Gia della mente involarmi" a polka tune from Alary's "A Tre Nozze." Then Mme. Gassier ushered in the day of the vocal waltz Venzano's, of amiable memory. Her followers have not yet died out, though Patti substituted Arditi's "Il Bacio" for Venzano's; Mme. Sembrich, Strauss's "Voce di Primavera," and Mme.
"No'l mostra gia, ben che in suo cor ne rida." Tasso, Jerus. Del., c. iv. v. 33. Her expression remains unchanged; but in spite of her modest look and downcast eyes, her tender heart is throbbing with joy, and it tells her that she has found Telemachus. If I relate the plain and simple tale of their innocent affections you will accuse me of frivolity, but you will be mistaken.
"Oh," he replied, "very little.... But a little and a little more end by making a great deal. With what an air he added: 'E gia il moschino e conte' Already the gnat is a count. The gnat was himself. 'A few more sales like yours, my Prince, and my son, the Count of Fossati, will have half a million. He will enter the club and address you with the familiar 'thou' when playing 'goffo' against you.
Mountain experience furnished that picture of the traveller caught in an Alpine mist and gradually climbing above it; seeing the vapors grow thin, and the sun's orb appear faintly through them; and issuing at last into sunshine on the mountain top, while the light of sunset was lost already on the shores below: "Ai raggi, morti gia' bassi lidi,"
This paper, which he handed to us almost at the point of his hallebarde, proved to be a gia scritto receipt for six hundred francs our pourboire! During breakfast yesterday the Emperor took up his glass, and, looking at me across the table, drank my health. Among the guests there was a great deal of health-drinking.
"That is a fact," said the artist; "let us go into the dining-room, then. "Gia la mensa a preparata." "While supping, I will explain my plans to you. I have just found a Daniel in the ashes " "My dear Marillac, drop your Daniel and Suzannah," replied Gerfaut, as he sat down to the table; "I have something much more important to talk to you about." By CHARLES DE BERNARD
It was not at you that she looked." "Certainly it was not," said Virginia with decision. "She looked at me," the boy said, "and I looked at her. She knew that I should be here." "Ho!" said I, and Virginia said, "Gia!" Ercole then explained. "That lady is Donna Domenica degli Onesti, who was daughter of my master, the Marchese Onesti, when I was dog-keeper to him at Bogazzano.
"One thing is singular," observed Beth, calmly. "There has been no train since last you saw him. If Count Ferralti has left the hotel, where could he be?" The portiere brightened. "Gia s'intende!" he exclaimed, "he must still be in Taormina doubtless at some other hotel." "Will you send and find out?" asked Louise. "I will go myself, and at once," he answered.
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