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Updated: July 23, 2025
"Signore," he said, slowly rising, "will you favour us by tasting the wine I brought last week? There is no one in the shop yet, for it is early. If you will, we can drink a glass." "Thank you," answered Griggs. "I have not eaten yet." "Then Sor Angoscia did not ask you to breakfast!" laughed Stefanone, insolently. "At midday, too! It was just the hour!
"You will be wanted before long, Sor Tommaso," said Dalrymple, gravely. "I hear that the abbess is very ill." The doctor looked up with sudden interest, and put on his professional expression. "The abbess, you say? Dear me! She is not young! What has she? Who told you, Sor Angoscia?"
"What Englishman?" she asked again, wearily, but with a show of interest in her half-closed eyes. "Who knows? An Englishman. They called him Sor Angoscia." Nanna sat down on the heavy box, and dropped her skinny hands far apart upon her knees. "We have cursed him much. He took our daughter. It was a night of evil.
And then pray, pray, sing, sing! It needs a chest! Poor lungs! I will go to my home and get ready blisters mustard a lancet they will not allow a barber in the convent to bleed them. Well I make myself the barber! What a life, what a life! If you wish to die young, be a doctor at Subiaco, Sor Angoscia. Good night, dear friend. Good night, Stefanone.
Now, 'Sor Angoscia' signifies in English 'Sir Anguish, but the doctor in spite of really conscientious efforts could not get nearer to the pronunciation of Angus. Nevertheless, with northern persistency, Dalrymple corrected him for the hundredth time.
"It is true," said the cobbler, reflectively. "It is he. It is his picture." "You will also say that he is now an English lord, but that formerly they called him Sor Angoscia. You, who are friends with Sor Paolo, you should tell him this. It may be that Sor Angoscia wishes him evil. Who knows? In this world the combinations are so many!"
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