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His felucca is in the port, thou sayest, and thou canst lead him hither by the secret door and the lanes." "Thou forgettest my errand. Don Camillo is not used to be served the second. Cospetto! 'T were a pity that any other got the liquor which I am certain the Calabrian has in secret."
"Yet, if that rascal had played false, all these precautions were lost. Cospetto! you were not wise," said the prudent philosopher. "Very likely not. You would have been so wise, that by this time your daughter would have been lost to you forever." "But why not employ the police?"
"And I can scarcely see from my eyes," the other said. "Cospetto, never before have I been thus handled!" "We will kill him!" the other said furiously. "That of course; I know not who he was, but we shall doubtless find out. I can hardly believe even now that it was with his hand that he struck us it was done so quickly.
"Cospetto!" grunted Vito Viti, nudging his neighbor, the vice-governatore, and nodding toward the other boat; "if that be not little Ghita, who came into our island like a comet and went out of it to what shall I liken her sudden and extraordinary disappearance, Signor Andrea?
Speak out, girl-I'll protect you." "Treachery, signor, dark and deep!" said the girl, whom Florinda had found it necessary to make a confidant of in relation to the intended elopement and marriage. "Noble business for an uncle and nephew!" "Repeat not those words" said Petro, angrily. "I repeat them, and am ready to abide by them," said Carlton. "Cospetto!" exclaimed Petro, in a rage.
There, the eldest son alone inherits the honors of the family, while the cadets are put into the army and navy to earn new distinctions. Nelsoni is the son of a priest, I hear " "Cospetto! of a padre! Signor Vice-governatore," interrupted the podest
"Signore, he was a more honest or a more just man did not cast his net in the gulf." "He has fallen a victim to his craft?" "Cospetto di Bacco! none know in what manner he came by his end. Some say St. Mark was impatient to see him in paradise, and some pretend he has fallen by the hand of a common Bravo, named Jacopo Frontoni." "Why should a Bravo take the life of one like this?"
It was a whiff eloquent, though cynical, a whiff peculiar to your philosophical smoker, a whiff that implied the most absolute but the most placid incredulity as to the effect of the parson's moral lesson. "Still you have not given us your decision," said the parson, after a pause. The doctor withdrew the pipe. "Cospetto!" said he, "he who scrubs the head of an ass wastes his soap."
"At least, faithful friend, you have tried that experiment as far as human nature will permit;" and he extended his hand to his fellow-exile with that familiarity which exists between servant and master in the usages of the Continent. Jackeymo bent low, and a tear fell upon the hand he kissed. "Cospetto!" said Dr. Riccabocca, "a thousand mock pearls do not make up the cost of a single true one!
Why will you not tell us what you want, and let us ask for it in the language of the country? It would save us a great deal of the humiliation your reprehensible ignorance causes us. I will address this person in his mother tongue: 'Here, cospetto! corpo di Bacco! Sacramento! Solferino! Soap, you son of a gun! Dan, if you would let us talk for you, you would never expose your ignorant vulgarity."
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