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Meanwhile, do not think me so extravagantly magnanimous; do not underrate the satisfaction I must feel at knowing Violante safe from the designs of Peschiera, safe, and forever, under a husband's roof. I will tell you an Italian proverb, it contains a truth full of wisdom and terror, "'Hai cinquanta Amici? non basta.
He would have given them a handful, taken as they came, for their piece of cinquanta, and reaped a tidy little profit for himself. Who would have been the worse? God knew he needed it. Mariola crumpled with the ague like a dried leaf, and that long girl of his growing up so fast, and still running wild with goat-herds and marble quarrymen.
Do you know anything about her?" "Never! No!" answered Pietro, with the perfect candor of an accomplished liar. "Have you ever seen her Highness?" "When she so," indicating a height about two feet from the ground. "You said that you had never seen her." "Meestake." "How old would she be?" Pietro wrinkled his brow, "Oh, quaranta, cinquanta; fifty-forty. Who knows?" "Fifty!
Over the table they leaned, the two candles, now burning low, illuminating their intense faces, their violent eyes, their brown hands that dealt and gathered up the cards, and held them warily, alert for the cheating that in Sicily, when possible, is ever part of the game. "Carta da cinquanta!" They had forgotten Maurice's limit for the stakes. "Carta da cento!"
Meanwhile, do not think me so extravagantly magnanimous; do not underrate the satisfaction I must feel at knowing Violante safe from the designs of Peschiera, safe, and forever, under a husband's roof. I will tell you an Italian proverb, it contains a truth full of wisdom and terror, "'Hai cinquanta Amici? non basta.
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