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"Pretensions pretensions!" he gasped. "Gran Dio! Hear him! hear the miserable scoundrel!" "Ah, basta!" exclaimed Chevalier Mancini, scornfully "Is that all? A mere bagatelle! Ferrari, you were wont to be more sensible! What! quarrel with an excellent friend for the sake of a woman who happens to prefer him to you! Ma che! Women are plentiful friends are few."
He does not seem to have done so." "No; that is strange yet scarcely strange; for, when we last met, his head was full of other things, love and marriage. /Basta!/ youth will be youth." "He has no youth left in him!" exclaimed Harley, passionately. "I doubt if he ever had any. He is one of those men who come into the world with the pulse of a centenarian.
The enmity which sometimes alarmed me for you must therefore end at once. You have no idea what a pleasure this has been to me! When you started hence with the fair voceratrice, with your gun in hand, and your brow lowering, you struck me as being more Corsican than ever too Corsican indeed! Basta! I write you this long letter because I am dull. The prefect, alas! is going away.
In her love for me there was something incongruous and burdensome, just as in Dmitri Petrovitch's friendship. It was a great, serious passion with tears and vows, and I wanted nothing serious in it no tears, no vows, no talk of the future. Let that moonlight night flash through our lives like a meteor and basta!
Do you think it is for nothing that you have taught me the language of Dante, of Petrarca, of Silvio Pellico? Do you think it is for nothing that Heaven has given me my voice? Do not the angels love music, and cannot I make as good songs as they? Or do you think that because I am bred a singer my hand is not as strong as a fine gentleman's contadino as I am? I will I will and I will, Basta!"
And really girls and women are intended to be a little useful to one. /Basta, basta/." "Mr. Darrell " "Yes, yes, yes! I forgive him, or he forgives me; settle it as you like. But my father's pardon, Lady Montfort, you will get me that!" "I will, I will." He looked at her again, and smiled. Arabella gently let his head fall back upon the pillow.
For the scorn with which he had been treated he had revenged himself though it was he who from the centre of the Plaza had cried "Basta!" It was not mercy that had caused him to interfere. His words were not prompted by motives of humanity far otherwise. His designs were vile and brutal. To-morrow the brother would be put out of the way, and then
The man of God bears my sign-manual too, but the Duke made us friends again, and it cost me more sack than I could carry, and all the Rhenish to boot, to pledge the seer in the way of love and reconciliation But, Caracco! 'tis a vile old canting slave for all that, whom I will one day beat out of his devil's livery into all the colours of the rainbow. Basta! Said I well, old Trapbois?
The cavalry squadrons rode on the left of the infantry, and were commanded by Nicolas Basta, a man who had been trampling upon the Netherlanders ever since the days of Alva, with whom he had first come to the country.
"It seems so, since your pride is compelled to own that the world would deem it one, if the jail chaplain took down the last words of your son- in-law! But, /basta, basta!/ hear me out, and spare hard names; for the blood is mounting into my brain, and I may become dangerous.
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