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Then, with a shock of surprise which was almost horror, he realized that this lovely, low-necked bird of Paradise creature was the same gentle girl he had followed. "Dio!" he said to himself, and bit his lip. He felt the blood rush up to his face, as if some one had given him an insulting blow, which he could not avenge because his hands were tied.
I had intended to go alone, trusting to my rifle for support, should I require more provisions than I could carry on my horse. As soon as I announced my intention of starting, Dio entreated that he might accompany me. "I will keep up wid you, Massa Mike, however fast you may hab to go.
When she was alone Jeanne had another attack of violent palpitation. Dio! how the past came back to her! How Praglia came back!
If he had twisted a halter of it to hang me with, I suspect that he had done what he truly desired. Father Carnesecchi listened to it all in the dejected, musing pose which I have described, words of pity incessantly escaping from his partly imprisoned mouth: "Dio mio!" "Dio buono!"
Dio Lewis's famous school at Lexington. They were obliged to leave home every Monday and return on Friday. The Charleston sisters refused for some time to accept the invitation given them; but so delicately and affectionately was it urged, that, goaded by necessity, they finally consented.
Salvatore stood by him, smiling at him, Salvatore with bare feet, and a fish-basket slung over his arm. "Buon giorno, Salvatore!" he answered, with an effort. Salvatore looked at Maurice's cigarette, put down the basket, and sat down on the seat by Maurice's side. "I haven't smoked to-day, signore," he began. "Dio mio! But it must be good to have plenty of soldi!" "Ecco!"
Dio! che non vorrei vivere dopo averla veduta? who would not wish to live after seeing her?" The peculiar accent with which he pronounced the words made Ginevra quiver. "Are you Corsican?" she cried, returning toward him with a beating heart. "I was born in Corsica," he replied; "but I was brought, while very young, to Genoa, and as soon as I was old enough for military service I enlisted."
What she would have said to Baldassare is difficult to guess, but fortunately for him, while she was struggling for words in which she could suitably express her sense of his presumption, Trenta, seeing what was coming, was beforehand. "Be silent, Baldassare," he exclaimed, "or, per Dio, I will never bring you here again." Before Baldassare could offer his apologies, the count burst in
The woman lifted the lace veil from the tiny face and showed him the sightless eyes. He crossed himself. "Poveretto! Dio vi benedica!" As Olive left the sacristy a tall man came across the aisle towards her. It was Prince Tor di Rocca. "This is a great pleasure," he said. "But not to you, I am afraid. You are not glad to see me." "I am surprised. I do you often come into churches?" He laughed.
On all sides poets and scholars celebrated Lodovico's name as the Pericles of this new Athens, and joined in the chorus of praise which inspired Pistoia's famous line "E un Dio in cielo e il Moro in terra." "There is one God in heaven and the Moro upon earth."
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