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Oh, it was a beautiful story, and ah! ah! of course it was the Santa Maria. Was not this the Festa del Gesù Bambino? To be sure, it was, and she had forgotten. No wonder the Santa Maria was singing to the Bambinetto. To-morrow would be his birthday, his festa. She would go to the blessed Madre and say,
It seemed as if this young prattling thing were some memory come back out of his own youth. "You like me to talk to you, don't you?" said Tessa, "but you must not tell anybody. Shall I fetch you a bit of cold sausage?" He shook his head, but he looked so mild now that Tessa felt quite at her ease. "Well, then, I've got a little baby. Such a pretty bambinetto, with little fingers and nails!
The thrilling notes were still falling upon her ear with caressing sweetness; but they seemed to come from beyond, from far beyond. Before her she saw more doors. Perhaps if she slipped through these she might come in sight of the owner of the voice. "It is the Santa Maria," murmured Nina to her heart. "And she is singing to the Bambinetto, to the Santissimo Bambino.
"I came in here because I heard most beautiful music, and I thought it might be the Santa Maria singing to the Bambinetto, since it is his birthday or will be to-morrow; and I thought I did not mean to do wrong, but I thought maybe if I could see the Gesù Santissimo once, only once, I should never be tired nor cold nor sad-hearted any more.
He lodged over a fruit-shop kept by a stout virago, loud of tongue and irate in temper, but who had had children born to her, and so had taken care of the tiny yellow, black-eyed bambinetto, and tended Sarti himself through his sickness.
All who have visited the church of the Frari at Venice will remember for once seen, they never can forget the ex-voto altar-piece which adorns the chapel of the Pesaro family. The beautiful Virgin is seated on a lofty throne to the right of the picture, and presses to her bosom the Dio Bambinetto, who turns from her to bless the votary presented by St. Peter.
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