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Updated: June 22, 2025
They laughed and talked with each other in excellent spirits; and one varlet near the coffin, who had slipped off his mask, winked at me repeatedly, as if to inform me that it was not his funeral. A masquerade might have been more gloomy and depressing. The most serviceable saint whom I know is St. Antonino.
The host allowed his hand to disappear from view in the enormous one presented, timidly. "Ah! in case of the universal European War, they are talking about, France will have need of such men as you!" The embarrassing situation for the modest inventor was altered for the better by the entrance of Antonino, who darted a keen glance upon the genial stranger.
"He is the author of several not inconsiderable inventions," replied Clemenceau for Antonino, who was not delighted with the stranger's ways, had gone to look out of the nearest window, although it necessitated his rudely turning his back on him. "Any cannon among them?" "No, M. Cant Cant " "Cantagnac " "Cantagnac; only a very notable bullet of novel shape."
So the Pope took the painter's advice, and the choice was so wise and good, that to this day the Florentine people talk lovingly of their good bishop Antonino. It was while he was at work in Rome that Fra Angelico died, so his body does not rest in his own beloved Florence.
In that heavenly climate no day can long be out of humor, and at Sorrento we found ours very pleasant, and rode delightedly through the devious streets, looking up to the terraced orange-groves on one hand, and down to the terraced orange-groves on the other, until at a certain turning of the way we encountered Antonino Occhio d'Argento, whom fate had appointed to be our boatman to Capri.
What Fiammetta thought, down in her heart, is not told: but I presume she shared the feelings of those about her concerning the brigands, and, when she heard that Giuseppe had joined them, was more anxious for the safety of his body than of his soul; though I warrant she did not forget either, in her prayers to the Virgin and St. Antonino.
"Money," repeated he, raised by her magic into a region above such sordid ideas and falling quickly. "Of course! my bank orders! stay, they are in your box. Let us hasten away before he returns. Quick, take!" "No;" said Antonino. "When he left the house in my charge he bade me touch nothing, and let nothing be touched until his return."
What Fiammetta thought, down in her heart, is not told: but I presume she shared the feelings of those about her concerning the brigands, and, when she heard that Giuseppe had joined them, was more anxious for the safety of his body than of his soul; though I warrant she did not forget either, in her prayers to the Virgin and St. Antonino.
Antonino does not, therefore, pretend to advocate any system of rigid equality among men. There is bound to be, in his opinion, variety among them, and from this variety comes indeed the harmony of the universe. For some are born to rule, and others, by the feebleness of their understanding or of their will, are fitted only to obey.
It is hanging up in my study." Antonino went out, not sorry to be beyond earshot of the boisterous negotiator. "Young wood, eh?" repeated the latter, "humph! lots of stony ground! ahem! yet it is pretty and so near town. I wonder you sell it." "I want ready money," returned Clemenceau, bluntly. "So we all do, ha, ha! But you surely could raise on it by mortgage." "I have tried that."
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