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Updated: June 3, 2025
'These Irish, they are odd without being droll, just as they are poor without being picturesque; but of all the delusions we nourish about them, there is not one so thoroughly absurd as to call them dangerous. He had just arrived at this mature opinion, when his friend re-entered and handed him the note. 'Here is a piece of luck. Per Bacco! cried Walpole, as he ran over the lines.
I want no other, and I swear by the gods to be faithful unto death, which doth put an end to life and thought." When he heard these sentiments, Messer Betto struck his forehead with his hand and cried: "Per Bacco! but I never guessed the riddle! Friend Guido, you have the subtlest wit under the red lily of Florence. I heartily commend your taking to wife so high a dame.
"What is this?" cried an amazed voice; and Harley, turning round, saw that the duke was by his side; and, glancing with ludicrous surprise, now to Harley, now to Violante, "Am I to understand that you " "Have freed you from one suitor for this dear hand, to become myself your petitioner!" "/Corpo di Bacco!/" cried the sage, almost embracing Harley, "this, indeed, is joyful news.
The omnibus driver leaned from his seat and swore. Corpo di Bacco! Did he think the boat would wait all day for the sake of one passenger? As it was, they were ten minutes late and would have to gallop every step of the way. The turmoil of ejaculation and gesture was approaching a climax; when suddenly, who should come sauntering into the midst of it but the young American man himself!
When you, my little Pepperpot, had not yet come to earth to torment your parents, but were still just a tiny thought in the corner of God's mind, I your old Baroni I was in Ruvania." "You in Ruvania?" He nodded. "Yes. I went there first as a professor of singing at the Borovnitz Conservatoire per Bacco! But they haf the very soul of music, those Ruvanians!
"Per Bacco!" said the cardinal to himself, alarmed at the expression of the Jesuit's face; "if he were to die before he had spoken, and so escape the snare!" Then, leaning over the bed, the prelate asked: "What is the matter, my very dear father?" "I am weak, my lord I am in pain I cannot express what I suffer."
It seems to me that I dream! Per Bacco!" Here my father observed that he must own he saw nothing very outrageous in what Rugiero had narrated, yet, as Signora Mortera had her own peculiar views on the matter, he considered that her brother was bound to respect them.
"I don't like leaving those nets," said the one who had been round. "We don't want 'em now, but the time may come when we shall be glad to go drifting again. What are you doing?" "Only got a handful of this 'bacco, my boy. I don't see any fun in buying it where there's hundredweights down here." "Bring me a handful too."
Never did I know any one staggered by anything I chose to say, but once. I was walking with my respectable old padrone, Nisi, about his little garden one day, when an ambition to know something about America inflamed his breast. "Are there any mountains?" he asked. I told him "Yes," and, with a chuckle of delight, he cried, "Per Bacco! And have you any cities?"
He held his breath, and would not look up, with some vague idea that if he refused to see he might escape being seen. "Per Bacco!" said Dr. Riccabocca, putting his hand on Lenny's shoulder, and bending down to look into his face, "per Bacco! my young friend, do you sit here from choice or necessity?"
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