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'I have had dozens of fevers, and dread them little more than a cold, said Winwood Reade; indeed, the English catarrh is quite as bad as the common marsh-tertian of the Coast. The normal month of immunity had passed; I was prepared for the inevitable ordeal, and I flattered myself that it would be a mild ague, at worst the affair of a week, Altro!
An interjection capable of as many and as varied meanings in the mouth of a colored woman of her stamp as was little Jean Baptiste's "altro!" It signified now "I comprehend a great deal more than you want me to perceive you poor, downtrodden angel!" "Um-HUM. I always did say he was his sister's own brother for all they don't look a bit alike. What's born into a man never comes out!" "Mr.
I am so comfortable here. And why have you brought those two men with you?" "Have you forgotten our dinner at Tragara?" asked San Miniato. "Tragara!" gasped the Marchesa. "You are not going to take me to Tragara! Good heavens! I am utterly exhausted! I shall die before we get to the boat." "Altro è parlar di morte altro è morire," laughed San Miniato, quoting the famous song.
When I express my admiration of such condescending sweetness, they reply è un uomo come un altro; è battezzato come noi; and the like Why he is a man of the same nature as we: he has been christened as well as ourselves, they reply. Yet do I not for this reason condemn the English as naturally haughty above their continental neighbours.
An't it gratifying, Mr Pancks, though; really? Mr Pancks, who had snorted at the old man in his friendliest manner, replied in the affirmative, and casually asked whether that lively Altro chap had come in yet? Mrs Plornish answered no, not yet, though he had gone to the West-End with some work, and had said he should be back by tea-time.
"Era la stagione nella quale la rivestita terra, più che tutto l' altro anno, si mostra bella," he said, without other salutation, throwing his soft gray hat on a heap of magazines and newspapers in the corner, and finding what perch he could for himself on the window-sill.
'No! said Mr Baptist, shaking his head. 'You have just now described a man who was by when you heard that song; have you not? 'Yes! said Mr Baptist, nodding fifty times. 'And was he not called Blandois? 'No! said Mr Baptist. 'Altro, Altro, Altro, Altro! He could not reject the name sufficiently, with his head and his right forefinger going at once.
You knew from the first moment when you saw me here, that I was a gentleman? 'ALTRO! returned John Baptist, closing his eyes and giving his head a most vehement toss.
"And I," said Tracy, better up to the mark by this time, "I think of you, you dear little woman, that I ought to be grateful to you, for, by heaven! you give me, every time I see you, the greatest temptation to be a fool and let me prove that I'm not. Altro! altro!" "A fool!" said Emilia caressingly; showing that his smart insinuation had slipped by her.
The last time when it I have heard, said Mr Baptist, formerly Cavalletto, who usually went back to his native construction of sentences when his memory went near home, 'is from a sweet little voice. A little voice, very pretty, very innocent. Altro!
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