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He was so near that he made grab after grab at her; but just as he was about to lay hold of her hard by a fence, she was over it, while he tumbled after her into the enclosure of a homestead. Then she cried and shouted up to the house, "Randi, and Brandi, and Gyri, and Gunna!" And four girls came rushing down over the sward.
Soon the increase of business justified the engagement of the whole building, and from that time the growth of the trade has been rapid and permanent. Brandi houses were established in Chicago, Indianapolis, and St. Louis, and the parent houses in Akron and Cleveland have been kept busy in supplying the needs of these branches as well as of their own.
"Then you must be very entertaining, and I will laugh a great deal." Still looking critically at the lady's face, "Are you not," demanded Annunziata, "the person who has come to visit the Signora Brandi?" "Signora Brandi?" The lady considered. "Yes, I suppose I must be. At any rate, I am the person who has come to visit Frau Brandt." "Frao Branta? We call her Signora Brandi here," said Annunziata.
John Adams said, "if the ancients drank wine as our people drink rum and cider it is no wonder we hear of so many possessed with devils." The cost of these various drinks was thus given about Revolutionary times in Bristol, R. I.: "Nip of Grog 6d Dubel bole of Tod 2s 9d Dubel bole of punch 8s Nip of punch 1s Brandi Sling 8d"
I can only swear to my impression. My impression was and is that it was merely a real person." "Then," said Annunziata, with decision, "it must be the person who is visiting the Signora Brandi." "The Signora Brandi?" repeated John. "What a nice name! Who is the Signora Brandi?" "She is an Austrian," said Annunziata. "Oh ?" said John.
But the lady merely laughed. And then, taking Annunziata's chin in her hand, she looked down into her big clear eyes, and said, "I must be off now, to join Signora Brandi. But I cannot leave without telling you how glad I am to have met you, and what pleasure I have derived from your conversation. I hope we shall meet often. Good-bye."
"Her name is Maria Dolores." "A most becoming name," said he. "She is very nice," said Annunziata. "She looks very nice," said he. "She is twenty-two years and ten months old," continued his informant. "Fancy. As middle-aged as that," commented he. "Yes. She is an Austrian." "Ah." "And as I told you, she is visiting the Signora Brandi. Only, she calls her Frao Branta." "Frao Branta?"
To begin with, how does the Signora Brandi, being an Austrian, come by so characteristically un-Austrian a name? Is that mysterious? And in the next place, why does an Austrian Signora Brandi so far forget what is due to her nationality as to live, not in Austria, but in Lombardy? And as if that were not enough at Castel Sant' Alessina?
"I must keep a guard upon myself," said John. "She's visiting an Austrian woman who lives in a remote wing of the castle, the pavilion beyond the clock, in fact, an Austrian woman of the exhilarating name of Brandi." "I'm rather in luck for my dinner to-night," said Lady Blanchemain. "I've got Agnes Scope, the niece of the Duke of Wexmouth. She arrived here this morning with her aunt, Lady Louisa.
"She lives in the pavilion beyond the clock-tower," said Annunziata. "I wasn't aware," said John, "that the pavilion beyond the clock-tower was inhabited. I wasn't aware that any part of this castle was inhabited, except the porter's lodge and the part that we inhabit. Why have I been left till now in this state of outer darkness?" "The Signora Brandi has been absent," said Annunziata.
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