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Updated: July 8, 2025
He would have done it had he not mistrusted his powers, lest they should not suffice to treat with dignity and grace of such a subject, like one practised in the sciences and in rhetoric. I know well that when he reads Alberto Duro he finds him very weak, seeing in his own mind how much more beautiful and useful his own conception would be.
At first they believed that Caesar wasn't interested; but they were soon able to understand at Castro that he was interested enough, but not in them. The Minister of the Treasury served him as a battering-ram to use against the Clericals at Castro Duro. Don Calixto was inwardly rejoiced to see his rivals reduced to impotency.
The day after the triumph, the month of imprisonment will be taken into account, and St. Pelagie is not the 'carcere duro'. Papillon is cunning and wishes to have a finger in every pie, so he goes to dine once a week with those who owe their sojourn in this easy-going jail to him, and regularly carries them a lobster. Paul Sillery, who has also made Maurice's acquaintance, loiters in this studio.
Enough remains to overwhelm us with astonishment, and furnish materials for the study of years. The white marbles of Greece were the first introduced into Rome. Paros supplied the earliest specimens, and long held a monopoly of the trade. Marmor Parium, or Marmo Greco duro, as it is called by the modern Italians, is the very flower and consummation of the rocks.
"It wouldn't be a bad idea for you to go on cultivating the bookseller." "I am going to." "Tomorrow, you know," said Caesar. "Grand dinner at Don Calixto's. The practical manoeuvres begin." "Very good." The table had been set in that wonderful gallery of the ancient palace of the Dukes of Castro Duro, which looked out over the garden.
Afterwards we played 'Up, Jenkins'. That was the one game we played with the peasants, except that exciting one of theirs, which consists in shouting in rapid succession your guesses at the number of fingers rapidly spread out and shut into the hands again upon the table. Il Duro joined in the game. And that was because he had been in America, and now was rich.
They arrived at Castro Duro. In the station they saw groups of peasants. The travellers with their baggage went out of the station. There were two shabby coaches at the door. "Are you going to the Comercio?" asked one driver. "No, they are going to the Espana," said the other. "Then you two know more than we do," answered Alzugaray, "because we don't know where to go." "To the Comercio!"
This statue, of the marble called at Rome Greco duro, is reckoned one of the finest extant of the mirth-inspiring deity. It is paved with curious marble, and independently of the Muses, and their leader, Apollo, here are also assembled the antique portraits of poets and philosophers who have rendered themselves famous by cultivating them.
In the groins there remain some large Renaissance brackets, and in one wing of the edifice, inhabited by the nuns, there are windows with jalousies and a rather lofty tower terminating in a weather-cock and a cross. Castro Duro is principally a town of farmers and carriers. Its municipal limits are very extensive; the plain surrounding it is fertile enough.
In the interior of the church the most notable thing to be seen is the Renaissance altar-piece and a Romanesque arch that gives entrance to the baptistery. The second archeological monument of the town is the ancient palace of the Dukes of Castro Duro. The palace, a great structure of stone and now blackened brick, rises at the side of the town-hall, and has, like it, an arcade on the Square.
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