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May Madonna preserve them! "You have not come to that! You can do all you want all I want of you, I know." Towards morning the Prince stole away and found Carmagnola lying asleep across the door. "Altezza," said the gondolier, "the Duchess ordered me to give you this note." He held out a dainty sheet of paper folded into a triangle.
The lady's brow flushed. The maid said, in an awe-struck whisper: "Altezza, the man is here." The lady bade her admit him, and snatched up a little black mask and put it on; and in a moment her colour was gone, and the contrast between her black mask and her marble cheeks was strange and fearful. A man entered bowing and scraping.
"The proprietor pretends he does not know you, but I am certain he does. He forgets himself sometimes in the way he bows to you. He has even called you altezza, which you tell me is Italian for highness." "He is in hope of a liberal tip." "The proprietor? One does not tip him." "That is true. I can not understand his motive, then." "If he also applied the title to me, it would be different.
Illustrissimo, Eccellenza, Altezza, will sometimes open the purse, when plain "Mosshoe" will not. The profession of a beggar is by no means an unprofitable one. A great many drops finally make a stream. The cost of living is almost nothing to them, and they frequently lay up money enough to make themselves very comfortable in their old age.
"Buon' giorno, Altezza," returned Assunta. "Is the Signorina at home?" asked the intruder. "But no!" cried Assunta. "She has started to climb the very sky to-day, Monte Altiera, and for what I can't make out. It only wears out Bertuccio's shoes and the asinetto's legs." "Grazia," said Apollo, moving away.
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