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Updated: May 23, 2025
By what seems to us the most whimsical of political arrangements, the Papuan islander, the Calabrian peasant, the Amsterdam merchant, the semi-civilized Aztec, the Moor of Barbary, the Castilian grandee, the roving Camanche, the Guinea negro, the Indian Brahmin, found themselves could they but have known it fellow-citizens of one commonwealth.
The teacher in the first room here is a handsome young Calabrian, with the gentlest face and manner, one of the most efficient teachers under Mr. Buscarlet. The boys had out their Bibles when we entered, and one after another read passages to us.
Jacopo made an effort to command himself, when he commenced his tale. The course of the narrative does not require that we should accompany this extraordinary man though the relation of the secrets he imparted to Don Camillo. It is enough for our present purposes to say, that, as he proceeded, the young Calabrian noble drew nearer to his side, and listened with growing interest.
It is like that of Musolino the case of an isolated outlaw, who finds the perplexed geographical configuration of the country convenient for offensive and defensive purposes. Calabrian brigandage, as a whole, has always worn a political character. The men who gave the French so much trouble were political brigands, allies of Bourbonism.
She even suggested that they should go down to San Domenico for a fortnight, to look after the great Calabrian estate. They rose and began to walk toward the cottage.
Yesterday he complained to the master, because the Calabrian touched his leg with his foot. The master asked the Calabrian: "Did you do it intentionally?" "No, sir," he replied, frankly. "You are too petulant, Nobis." And Nobis retorted, in his airy way, "I shall tell my father about it." Then the teacher got angry.
Hardly was the Calabrian seated in his place, when his neighbors presented him with pens and a print; and another boy, from the last bench, sent him a Swiss postage-stamp. Tuesday, 25th. The boy who sent the postage-stamp to the Calabrian is the one who pleases me best of all.
"I undertake, worthy lord," said he, "to bear away with this hand whomever thou shalt point out to me, and with this other defend myself against seven such Lygians, and bring the maiden to thy dwelling though all the Christians in Rome were pursuing me like Calabrian wolves. If not, I will let myself be beaten with clubs in this impluvium." "Do not permit that, lord," cried Chilo.
The vast belt of smoke at last arched over the strait, here about twenty miles wide, and sank towards the distant Calabrian shore. As we drove under it, for some miles of our way, the sun was totally obscured, and the sky presented the singular spectacle of two hemispheres of clear blue, with a broad belt of darkness drawn between them.
Not unnaturally, I suspected that a desire for substantial thanks had some part in their Silence, and at a convenient spot I made suitable offering. It was done, I trust, with all decency, for I knew that I had the better kind of Calabrian to deal with; but neither the jovially intelligent man nor the pleasant simpleton would for a moment entertain this suggestion.
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