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Updated: April 30, 2025
Orsino discovered before long that his partner was a man of skill and energy, and his spirits rose by degrees as the work began to advance. Contini was restless, untiring and gifted, such a character as Orsino had not yet met in his limited experience of the world.
If Orsino had realised exactly how profitable it was, he might have forced Del Ferice to share the gain with him, and would have done so for the sake of Contini, if not for his own. He suspected, indeed, that Ugo was certain beforehand, in each case, of selling or letting the houses, but he had no proof of the fact.
One must feel those things here, Signor Principe, here in the heart!" Contini struck his breast with his clenched fist and bit the end of his cigar quite through in his anger. Then he suddenly seized his hat and rushed out of the room. Orsino was less surprised at the outburst than might have been expected, and did not attach any great weight to his partner's dramatic rage.
But affairs in Rome will not go on for ever. I tell you that, Don Orsino. There is trouble in the air. I wish we had sold everything and could wait. It would be much better." "All this is very vague, Contini." "It is very clear to me. Matters are going from bad to worse. There is no doubt that Ronco has failed." "Well, and if he has? We are not Ronco.
In balancing an account one takes but the sordid debit and credit and compares them but in estimating the value of a firm one should consider its reputation and the goodwill it has created. The name of Andrea Contini and Company is a power in Rome. That is the result of your work, and it is not a loss." Orsino said nothing, but leaned back in his chair, gloomily staring at the wall.
Where will he find another Andrea Contini and Company to make worthless property valuable for him? In that sense you and I are earning his gratitude, by the simple process of being scrupulously honest. I do not feel in the least humiliated, I assure you." "I cannot help it," replied Contini, biting his cigar savagely. "I have a heart, and it beats with good blood.
He came back suddenly to Orsino's table as he ceased speaking and his face showed that he was really disturbed. Orsino looked at him steadily for a few seconds. "It is not only Ronco's failure that frightens you, Contini. There must be something else." "More of the same kind. There is enough to frighten any one." "No, there is something else. You have been talking with somebody."
You receive the buildings as they now stand and our credit cash if there is any, in full discharge of all the obligations of Andrea Contini and Company to the bank acceptances coming due, balance of account if in debit, and mortgages on land and houses and we are quits again, my firm being discharged of all obligation." Del Ferice's expression changed a little and became more grave.
He did not see himself in the character of a mandolinist. "I have not the slightest ear for music," he answered. "I would much rather learn something about business." "It is less amusing," said Andrea Contini regretfully. "But I am at your service. I will come to the office when work is over and we will do the accounts together. You will learn in that way very quickly." "Thank you.
Orsino signed everything required of him after reading the documents, and Andrea Contini followed his example. The architect was a tall man with bright brown eyes, a dark and somewhat ragged beard, close cropped hair, a prominent, bony forehead and large, coarsely shaped, thin ears oddly set upon his head.
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