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And if he says yes, if he consents to marry me, I give you my most solemn promise that not for any consideration in the world will I accept him." "What?" questioned the Commendatore, blinking at her. "If he says yes, I 'll say no. If he says no, he says no. So it is no, either way," she pointed out. "And meanwhile the launch is waiting." "If he says no!" scoffed the Commendatore.
"A very good, kind, holy man," said Susanna. "And as my cousin is a faithful Catholic, I think on all accounts Father Angelo will serve my purpose best." "Peuh a Jesuit," said the Commendatore, elevating his nose. "He is n't a Jesuit he is a Capuchin," said Susanna. "They are all Jesuits," said the Commendatore, with a sweeping gesture.
"And then," pursued Susanna, "having paid the usual compliments, you rise to go." "Ah bene," said the Commendatore, and his lean old yellow face looked a good deal relieved. "Yes," said she. "But then, having risen to go, then, like the wily and supple diplomat you are, you come to the real business of your visit." "Oh?" said the Commendatore.
She is not in the least like the typical submissive young Italian girl. She is excessively self-willed, capricious, fantastic, unreasonable " "Bravo," put in the Commendatore, clapping his bony old hands. "I can say all that with a clear conscience." He twirled his moustaches again. "Do you think I would ask you to say anything you could n't say with a clear conscience?"
Santini, miss." "Ah!" exclaimed Jack quickly, as Olinto entered the room. "Then you had my note! We have asked you here to reveal to us this dastardly plot which seemed to have been formed against Mr. Gregg and myself. As you know, I've had a narrow escape." "I know, signore. And the Signor Commendatore is also threatened." "By whom?"
"And it seemed as if the commendatore had at last overtaken him, for, as we were at our meal, there came three heavy knocks at my outer door, which made our friend start. I have sustained a siege or two here, and went to my usual place to reconnoitre. Thank my stars I have not a bill out in the world, and besides, those gentry do not come in that way.
He must conform to the customs of the country," insisted Commendatore Fregi, in the dialect of Sampaolo, twirling his fierce old moustaches, glaring with his mild old eyes. "No," said Susanna, softly, firmly; "we must stretch a point in his favour. He is English. We will adopt the custom of his country. So you will call upon him. I wish it."
After that the emotional tourist must be hard indeed to please who would begrudge his laurels to Commendatore Boni, or would not wish him a perpetual crown of them. It is not every undeserving American who can have the erudition and divination of the Genius Loci in answer to his unuttered prayer during a visit to even a small part of the Roman Forum.
"He followed closely behind the Signor Commendatore. Markoff, a clever secret agent of Baron Oberg's, came with him." Then for the first time I recollected that the man I had recognized in the Strand was a fellow I had seen lounging in the ante-room of the palace of the Governor-General of Finland.
"So you said," Susanna reminded him. "To a lady in England, I think?" "Yes," assented the Commendatore. "It is a pity on our account that he will not throw her over. But it is to his credit. Let me tell you it is not every man in his position who would stick at the point of honour. Consider the alternative.
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