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"So, so, Ii ft her up, man, we could hear Campana say; 'lift her up quick or she will be suffocated."
"He was an awful villain, however, you must allow," said the Captain. "Granted in the fullest sense, my dear sir," rejoined Campana; "but we are all frail, erring creatures, and he was hardly dealt by. He is now gone to his heavy, heavy account, and I may as well tell you the poor boy's sad story at once. Had you but seen him in his prattling infancy, in his sunny boyhood!"
It is commonly known as "The Painted Tomb," or La Grotta Campana after its discoverer, the Marchese Campana of Rome who got permission forty-five years ago from the Queen of Sardinia, to whom the property then belonged, to dig in this locality for jewels and other relics of antiquity.
"Good God, why did you not say so before?" rejoined Campana. Here his wife called loudly to her husband, "Ricardo, Ricardo, por amor de su alma, manda por el medico, she has burst a blood vessel Maria is dying!" "Let me mount myself; I will go myself." And the excellent man rushed for the door, when the poor heart broken Picador clung to his knees. "No, no, don't leave me. Send some one else"
"Why," said Campana; "the family are in the country; they live about four miles from Santiago, on the very road to my property, and we shall call on our way; but I don't much admire these interviews there will be a scene, I fear" "Not on my part," said I; "but call I must, for I solemnly promised" and presented the miniature to Don Ricardo. Campana looked at it.
I weep for that vast, brilliant future which is buried in an unknown grave, in an enemy's country, on a hostile shore. Oh, Campana! Campana! if ever I am king again, I will raise you a royal tomb." The general had had dinner served in an adjacent room. Murat followed him and sat down to table, but he could not eat.
Take as an example the Campana affair, which created such a sensation in 1858. This unfortunate Marquis succeeded his father and his grandfather as Director of the Monte di Piet
The lower part of the town had been busy enough, and the stir and hum of it rendered the quietude of the upper part of it more striking. A shovel hatted friar now suddenly accosted us. "Senor Campana ese pobre familia de Cangrejo! Lastima! Lastima!" "Cangrejo Cangrejo!" muttered I; "why, it is the very name attached to the miniature."
But Campana, hooking his little fat wife under his arm, while we did the agreeable to the nieces, now addressed himself to enter, with the constant preliminary ejaculation of all well bred Spaniards in crossing a friend's threshold, "Ave Maria purissima," when we were checked by a loud tearing fit of coughing, which seemed almost to suffocate the patient, and female voices in great alarm, proceeding from the room beyond.
General Franceschetti and his aide-de-camp Campana were able to accomplish the jump in the same way, and all three went rapidly down to the sea through the little wood which lay within a hundred yards of the shore, and which hid them for a few moments from their enemies.
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