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Surely in a few days she would find work. It occurred to her that she might advertise. "Young English lady would give lessons. Terms moderate. Apply O. A., Aquila Verde." She wrote it out presently, and took it herself to the office of one of the local papers. "I have saved fifteen centesimi," she thought as she walked rather wearily back by the long Via Cavour.
The piety or interest of the community, which guards the entrance to the theatre by a fee of certain centesimi, may be concerned in keeping the wall free from the grass and vines which are stealing the half-excavated arena back to forgetfulness and decay; but whatever agency it was, it weakened the appeal that the wall made to the sympathy of the spectators.
And in the recesses of the porches, all day long, knots of men of the lowest classes, unemployed and listless, lie basking in the sun like lizards; and unregarded children, every heavy glance of their young eyes full of desperation and stony depravity, and their throats hoarse with cursing, gamble, and fight, and snarl, and sleep, hour after hour, clashing their bruised centesimi upon the marble ledges of the church porch.
And in the recesses of the porches, all day long, knots of men of the lowest classes, unemployed and listless, lie basking in the sun like lizards; and unregarded children every heavy glance of their young eyes full of desperation and stony depravity and their throats hoarse with cursing gamble and fight and snarl and sleep, hour after hour, clashing their bruised centesimi upon the marble ledges of the church porch.
A group of wild, half-naked children came about us begging, as we sat upon the walls of the terrace, the terrace which overhangs the busy plain below, and which commands the entire, varied, nooky promontory, and the two bays. And these children, insensible to beauty, want centesimi! In the rear of the church are some splendid specimens of the umbrella-like Italian pine.
You must have been about ten. I had taken you to the Zoological Gardens, such as they were." Her laughter rippled out softly again. "I remember," she nodded, "it was dreadful." "Yes," he said; "we were at the monkey-cage; you had grown tired of feeding the ostrich with centesimi." "Oh, Philip!" she interrupted him; "I never, never would have done such a thing.
There may have been much else in the procession that would have failed to win praise from a metropolitan crowd of spectators, and such justice as was done to it by the author of the little book, which was on sale for a few centesimi, might have struck an exacting critic as being tempered with more mercy than it fairly deserved.
A group of wild, half-naked children came about us begging, as we sat upon the walls of the terrace, the terrace which overhangs the busy plain below, and which commands the entire, varied, nooky promontory, and the two bays. And these children, insensible to beauty, want centesimi! In the rear of the church are some splendid specimens of the umbrella-like Italian pine.
Hillard, with increasing wonder, felt again. "What is it?" he asked. "What is it? It is four hundred and fifty napoleons!" "What?" sharply, even doubtfully. "That's what! Eighteen hundred dollars, more than three hundred and sixty pounds, nearly a million centesimi, and Heaven only knows what it would be in Portuguese. My system will have no funeral to-night.
Several had soldi to buy flowers or copy-books, and they brought them; some of the smaller girls gave centesimi; the one with the blue feather collected all, and counted them in a loud voice: "Eight, ten, fifteen!" But more was needed. Then one larger than any of them, who seemed to be an assistant mistress, made her appearance, and gave half a lira; and all made much of her.
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