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The Signor, as he went out with the music, said, "Do you suppose she didn't want him to know about the bambino?" "Perhaps she is afraid he will think her heartless for leaving it," replied Madame. "But I will tell her I took all the blame on myself. If she is so anxious about his good opinion, it shows which way the wind blows."
At this moment, the music bursts forth into a triumphant march, a jubilant strain over the birth of Christ, and he is borne through the doors of the church to the great steps. There the bishop elevates the Holy Bambino before the crowds who throng the steps, and they fall upon their knees.
But I did not set out till three o'clock, lost all the fine part of the morning, and did not get to town till five in the afternoon dragged for two hours, two whole hours, through mud, and cold, and mist, till I was perishing; so that when I had eat some dinner I was fit for nothing but to go to bed, and therefore did not go to Berkley Square till yesterday at noon. . . . I saw Caroline and her bambino. . . . The christening is to be, as I understand, to-morrow.
The applause from this part of the program was allowed to die and a dignified pause ensued, after which the signora appeared in her famous juggling act, unmindful of the cries of the bambino from the roulotte in active rebellion against the substitute.
A be-ribboned nurse carrying a baby had just come in to see the Sacro Bambino, and Olive followed them into the sacristy and saw the child laid down before the bedizened, red-cheeked wooden doll in the glass case. As they passed out again the monk who was in attendance gave Olive a coloured card with a prayer printed on the back. She heard him asking what was the matter with the little one.
"Bambino!" murmured Maria; "dear little baby bird. Oh, see! he's actually getting feathers!" It was true, the soft down with which he was covered in some places was beginning to give way to the first pin feathers, his bill did not seem so awkwardly large, and the soft, shapeless body already showed signs of developing future grace.
Joseph replied cheeringly, and led her under a roof of leaves in the sanctuary, formed in the manner of a stable, in which we could see the manger against the wall. Here she took rest from her journey, while a little crib, wherein lay the Bambino or waxen image of the Babe all adorned with ribbons and laces, was brought from the sacristy and placed in the straw at her feet.
"For," said gentle Miss Nellie, drawing Madame d'Avala aside and lowering her voice "for we are very sorry for Freddy now. His mother " "Oh, yes, she has gone to England." "Why, no! She is dead!" "Oh, mio povero bambino! And how he adores her!" "Yes." "And what will he do then?" "He can stay on here. But I am afraid he doesn't like us," Miss Nellie sighed. "Has he no one else?"
She listlessly extended her arm and filled it to the brim with Cyprian and a sweetened Oriental wine which I afterward found so bitter on the deserted Lido. "Here," she said, presenting it to me, "per voi, bambino mio." "For you and for me," I said, presenting her my glass in turn. She moistened her lips while I emptied my glass, unable to conceal the sadness she seemed to read in my eyes.
Angelina admitted, however, that her bambino was supremely happy there, so happy, in fact, that she hadn't the heart to take her away, even though she does know that it is all "tomfoolishness" the "kid" is being taught by a mistaken philanthropy. It is fair to suppose that in the factory and workshop of every description the kindergarten is bound to work incalculable results.
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