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"I will ask for Del Ferice at once," said Orsino. He accordingly sought out one of the men who wore the bank's livery and told him to take his card to the count. "The Signor Commendatore is not coming this morning," answered the man mysteriously. Orsino went back to the head clerk, interrupting his conversation with the others. He inquired if it were true that Del Ferice were not coming.
"Englishmen are apt to be quiet," said Susanna. "He speaks Italian as well as I do," went on the Commendatore. "But he cannot speak Sampaolese." "He could easily learn Sampaolese," said Susanna. "Yes," said the Commendatore. "When I repeated that humbug about your becoming a nun and resigning the properties to him, he held up his hands in horror. 'She must not think of such a thing, he cried.
For the perpetual holy fires of the Aryans in Europe appear to have been commonly kindled and fed with oak-wood, and in Rome itself, not many miles from Nemi, the fuel of the Vestal fire consisted of oaken sticks or logs, as has been proved by a microscopic analysis of the charred embers of the Vestal fire, which were discovered by Commendatore G. Boni in the course of the memorable excavations which he conducted in the Roman forum at the end of the nineteenth century.
"A brown-back a funeral-follower a prayer-monger," he growled, brushing his immense moustaches upwards, to emphasize his scorn. "Hush," Susanna remonstrated, lifting her hand. "You must n't rail against religion." "I do not rail against religion," answered the Commendatore. "Taken in moderation, religion is an excellent thing for women. Did I not see that you were religiously brought up?
These are the worst spectres, because they must be subdued: you touch them, they touch you, and, in order to drag you away to their tomb, they seize you with an arm of flesh which is no better than the marble hand of the Commendatore." EUGENE PELLETAN (ÉLISÉE, Voyage d'un homme
She ran to the edge of the quay, and sprang lightly into her boat. "Avanti avanti," she cried to the rowers, who instantly pushed the boat free, and bent upon their oars. Then she waved her disfranchised guardian a kiss. "Addio, Commendatore. I 'll write to you from Venice."
He hesitated a moment, looking straight into my face. "Well, Signor Commendatore, to tell the truth, she has disappeared." "Disappeared!" I echoed. "And have you not made any report to the police?" "No." "Why not?" "For reasons known only to myself I did not wish the police to pry into my private affairs." "I know. Because you were once convicted at Lucca of using a knife eh?
Commendatore Beninobenone having been extricated from underneath the presidential armchair, it was explained by his legal adviser Avvocato Pagamimi that the various articles secreted in his thirtytwo pockets had been abstracted by him during the affray from the pockets of his junior colleagues in the hope of bringing them to their senses.
The Italian seated next to him was the Commendatore Rudolphe Cusani, head of the wealthy banking firm of Montemartini of Rome, which ranked next to the Bank of Italy. Of the remaining two, one was a Greek from Smyrna, and the other, a rather well-dressed man with longish grey hair, Josef Frohnmeyer of Hamburg, a name also to conjure with in the financial world.
If the White Pope, or the Holy Father, governed personally, we might hope, with a little aid from the imagination, that a miracle of grace would make him walk straight. He is rarely very capable or very highly educated: but as the statue of the Commendatore said, "He who is enlightened by Heaven wants no other light."
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