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The house was very silent with its drawn blinds. "When Betto came in with pale, tearful face, I asked her what had brought Colonel Vaughan's servant there so early. "'A very strange thing, sir, she said. 'He came to ask if Miss Vaughan was here?
"I stared at the letter in a maze of troubled thought, the feeling uppermost in my mind being 'too late! too late! gone for ever, my beloved wife! and alienated from me for ever my little less loved brother! "'And this, sir, said Betto, drawing another letter from her pocket, 'I found on Mr. Lewis's table. I think it is directed to you.
Not only was he a great creative genius, equally the first modern sculptor and the sanest, but he was himself tall and comely, open-handed, a warm friend, humorous and of vigorous intellect. A hint of the affection in which he was held is obtained from his name Donatello, which is a pet diminutive of Donato his full style being Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi.
"Aha! my friend, I see I am right," said Ellis, "and a farmer is a poet, whether he knows it or not." Cardo laughed heartily, as they alighted at the front door. "Tell my father that do. Cardo Wynne a poet! that is something new, indeed!" Here Mr. Wynne, followed by Betto, joined the group.
In Opera del Duomo, Florence Thus they have stolen away the silver altar of the Baptistery, that miracle of the fourteenth-century silversmiths, Betto di Geri, Leonardo di Ser Giovanni, and the rest, that it may be a cause of wonder in a museum.
'Mr Owen, Mr Jones, Tenewydd, did tell Mr Thomas, Trefortyn, who did tell John, blacksmith, who did tell Betto, that he saw Miss Netta and Mrs Jenkins, tallow-chandler, this morning about six o'clock, and they did get into a carriage by there. 'Go and tell mother that Aunt Jenkins was with Netta, Gladys, and I'll go and see whether Mr Jones really saw her or not.
If like me you had known my Diotima, you would have learned, friend Betto, that she doth distinguish two sorts of men, on the one hand such as, being fruitful only by the body, strive but for that coarse and commonplace immortality that is won by the generation of children, on the other they whose soul conceives and engenders what is meet for the soul to produce, to wit the Good and Beautiful.
During the chase, which was abundantly successful, Messer Betto Brunelleschi never ceased pondering the words Guido had used. And by dint of much thinking, he discovered their signification. Hailing Messer Bocca with loud cries, he said to him: "Come hither, Messer Bocca! I have just guessed what it was Messer Guido meant us to understand.
The smallest reverse of fortune might put Betto down, and some bitter foe up, and then there was the certainty that war canoes might come off in quest of the mountain, at any time, without asking the leave of the friendly chief, even while he remained in power.
Well, now, what do you say to a pretty white cow and her mistress?" "Oh! 'a pretty girl milking her cow' a charming subject. Show it me, Cardo not Betto, now you don't mean Betto? though, 'pon my word, I have seen her look very picturesque on the milking stool." "No, no, no! Caton pawb! man, I'll show you a prettier picture than that.
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