cardeneff

Updated: June 14, 2025

The major-domo also, with amiable condescension, affected not to notice them no, not even when one tall fellow, a butcher, with eyes as black as sloes, a pipe in his mouth, and a coarse cloak wrapped round him, took off his hat to the Princess Cardeneff, as she passed by him glittering with diamonds, and cried in her face, "Oh! bella, bella!"

Frances Elliot - The Italians