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Updated: June 17, 2025
"And how far may that be, friend? Be precise, as much may depend on your answers." "S'nore, that may be a trifle further than it is from the church to the top of the stairs that lead to Ana Capri." "Cospetto! Thou wilt earn thy ducat speedily at this rate! Tell us at once in miles; was the lugger one, two, six, or twenty miles from your island at the time thou speak'st of?"
She'll be sorry she's old eh, she's horribly old! Accursed, most rotten ass, Andrea! The whole story out of him and a lie at that. Cospetto! I can't let the poor lad swing. And I did knock him down and he cried like a girl; but not because I grassed him. By my soul, I'll do it there, then!" Then he mortised his chin in his brown hands and blinked while he waited.
Bewildered by his terror, Antonio sat trembling, and utterly incapable of deciding as to the course he should adopt, when the trusty gondolier again came to his rescue. "Cospetto! Signor!" he exclaimed, "have you lost your senses, that you run thus into the very jaws of those devil's messengers?
At first the Italian pished and grunted, and said /Cospetto/, and /Per Bacco/, and /Diavolo/, and tried to creep out of so much proffered courtesy.
Your often-told joke is a bad companion, and gets at last to be as gloomy as a dirge. Wine can be swallowed but once, and laughter will not come for ever for the same folly. Cospetto!
The appearance of all was miserable in the extreme; they were clothed in rags, and the faces of the Europeans had a dull, hopeless look that told alike of their misery and of their despair of any escape from it. They looked up listlessly as he entered, and then an Italian said, "Cospetto, comrade; but I know not whether your place is with us, or with the Moslems across there.
"Cospetto!" said the doctor, "if the hen would but hold her tongue, nobody would know that she had laid an egg." "Granted," said the parson; "but what follows? The saying is good, but I don't see the application." "A thousand pardons!" replied Dr.
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