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Updated: June 17, 2025
Perhaps once upon a time Costantina was beautiful beautiful as the angels but if so, it was long, long ago. Now she was old and fat, with a hawk nose and a double chin and one tooth left in the middle of the front.
My family, signorina, are poor; they need the four francs which you so munificently pay. 'You told me that you were an orphan; that you had no family. 'I mean the family which I hope to have. Costantina has extravagant tastes, and coral earrings cost two-fifty a pair. Constance laughed and assumed a more lenient air.
'Signore, in a conspiratorial whisper, 'zay are come, ze aunt and ze sister. 'I know the Signorina Costantina told me so. Gustavo blinked. 'But, signore, she does not know it. 'Yes, she does she saw 'em herself. 'I mean, signore, she does not know zat you are ze brover? 'Oh, no, she doesn't know that.
The gentleman looked back imperturbably, no slightest shade of recognition in his glance, unless a gleam of amusement far, far down in the depths of his eye might be termed recognition. He extracted a card with grave deliberation and handed it to his companion. 'Voglio vedere la Signorina Costantina, he remarked.
'You do everything that Costantina wishes? 'Everysing! But if you could see her you would not wonder. She has hair brown and gold, and her eyes, signorina, are sometimes grey and sometimes black, and her laugh sounds like 'Oh, yes, I know; you told me all that before.
She let the conversation drop, and Tony, after an interval of silence, fell to humming Santa Lucia in a very presentable baritone. The tune, Constance noted, was true enough, but the words were far astray. 'That's a very pretty song, Tony, but you don't appear to know it. 'I no understand Italian, signorina. I just learn ze tune because Costantina like it.
He dropped them on the table and turned toward the door; Constance followed with a backward glance. 'Good-bye, Tony; don't despair. Remember that it's always darkest before the dawn, and that whatever others think, Costantina and I believe in you.
'It is not possible, signorina. I have not brought ze donk'. 'Oh, I'm going to walk. 'As you please, signorina. He sighed patiently. Then he looked up and caught her eye. They both laughed. 'Signorina, he whispered, 'I ver' happy to-day. Zat Costantina she more kind. Yesterday ver' unkind; I go home ver' sad. But to-day I sink 'Yes? 'I sink after all maybe she like me li'l' bit.
'You have seen ze Signorina Costantina? 'Yes, I saw her. 'And is it not as I have said, zat she is beautiful as ze holy angels? 'Yes, Gustavo, she is and just about equally remote. You may make out my bill. The waiter's face clouded. 'You do not wish to remain longer, signore? 'Can't stand it, Gustavo; it's too infernally restful.
He has received a letter and he must go; he has stopped too long in Valedolmo. To-morrow morning early, he and I togever, we sail away to Austria. His eyes went back to the trail of smoke left by the little steamer. 'And Costantina, Tony. You are leaving her behind? It took some courage to put this question, but she did not flinch; she put it with a laugh which contained nothing but raillery.
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