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Updated: September 2, 2025
"Every work of it is as true as if the devil himself had done the office for me, girl," muttered Gino, uncasing himself from his flowery vestment, and as rapidly assuming the plainer garment he had sought "The cap, Annina, and the mask!"
"It is I, Annina," returned Gino, who was not an unfrequent applicant for admission at that private portal. "Open the door, girl, for I have come on a matter of pressing haste." Annina complied, though not without making sure that her suitor was alone. "Thou art come unseasonably, Gino," said the wine-seller's daughter; "I was about to go to St. Mark's to breathe the evening air.
Had the passion of the gondolier been very deep or very sensitive, this plain dealing might have given him a shock; but Gino appeared to take the repulse as coolly as it was given. "I am used to thy caprices, Annina," he said, throwing himself upon a bench like one determined to remain where he was.
"I had that wish, noble Signore, but Annina " "Seeing another, thy mind hath changed." "Signore, it has." Don Camillo looked at her earnestly, and with manly regret. "Thou art young for thy vocation here is gold. Retire as thou earnest. But hold dost thou know this Annina?" "She is my mother's sister's daughter, noble Duca. "Per Diana! a worthy sisterhood!
Each wore a short rapier at his girdle, and he fancied he could trace beneath the folds of their garments evidence of the presence of the clumsy fire-arms in use at that period. These observations were made while the Carmelite and Violetta entered the boat. Donna Florinda followed, and Annina was about to imitate her example, when she was arrested by the arm of Don Camillo.
"It wasn't very grey not so grey as a goat's. Well, he was always following Annina about, making her presents, cadging for favours. Accidente! I couldn't stand it, you must know. So, thinking of Annina, and of Gesù Cristo, and one thing and another, I decided to follow him back to the Via Gatta and so I did." "Say, Silvestro, what colour was the Jew's blood?"
Annina! it is, it is your poor Ippolita," panted the beauty, and fell into the red arms of her friend. "Sakes! dear sakes! Thou'lt spoil thy glory, my lovely dear," cried the other; "but there then, but there then, there's nothing to wail about. Tell me the trouble, tell thy good Nannina!" So she petted her, like a mother her child. Donna Euforbia stood confused, but dutiful ever.
My father and brothers are already departed, and I only stay to make sure of the bolts." "Their gondola will hold a fourth?" "They have gone by the footways." "And thou walkest the streets alone at this hour, Annina?" "I know not thy right to question it, if I do," returned the girl with spirit. "San Theodore be praised, I am not yet the slave of a Neapolitan's servitor!"
"'Twill not be the first of thy oversights which it has been my business to excuse. Here thou art, and here shalt thou remain, until I know the errand which calls for a mask and jacket, and all about this matter of gravity." "This is talking like a jealous wife instead of a reasonable girl, Annina.
Our Lady of Loretto! I am not the person to be sent for, when the state wishes to part two lovers!" "I have borne with thee, Annina, because I would let the gondola get beyond the limits of the city; but now thou must throw aside thy subterfuge, and speak plainly. Where didst thou leave my wife?" "Does your eccellenza then think the state will admit the marriage to be legal?"
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