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Updated: June 29, 2025
Gaspare seized the clock, turned a handle, lifted his hand in a reverent gesture bespeaking attention; there was a faint whirr, and then, sure enough, the tune of the "Tre Colori" was tinkled blithely forth. "Ecco!" repeated Gaspare, triumphantly. "Mamma mia!" murmured Maddalena, almost exhausted with the magic of the fair. "It's wonderful!" said Maurice.
Here and there were patches of arable land and groups of tilling peasants in the wide untidy expanse; once or twice too an osteria, with its bush or its wine-stained tables under the shadow of its northern wall. But scarcely a farmhouse. Once indeed a great building like a factory or a workhouse, in the midst of wide sun-beaten fields. 'Ecco! la fattoria, said the driver, pointing to it.
"Ecco, giovane mio!" said the respectable printer and goldsmith, "you have now a pretty little fortune; and if you will take my advice, you will let me place your florins in a safe quarter, where they may increase and multiply, instead of slipping through your fingers for banquets and other follies which are rife among our Florentine youth.
"Ecco! Eccola!" was often repeated from mouth to mouth around her, but she heard it not. When at last the ceremony was finished, the crowd rushed again out of the church to see the departure of various dignitaries.
The Italians had to show they knew how to die; then God let them live. Ecco, eccellenza!" And he drew from his breast-pocket, with shaking hands, an old envelope tied round with string. When he had untied it, a piece of paper emerged, brown with age and worn with much reading.
Imagine that I have told you these stories sitting under the vine and fig-tree of some villetta, while Angiolina has gone to call the padrone, who will only be too glad to see you. But, ecco! at last our padrone comes.
‘And what may have been your motive for coming to this place?’ said I. ‘Per far visita a sua signoria, ecco il motivo.’ ‘Why do you speak to me in that gibberish,’ said I; ‘do you think I understand it?’ ‘It is not Armenian,’ said the man in black; ‘but it might serve, in a place like this, for the breathing of a little secret communication, were any common roadster near at hand.
It seems to me a thousand years till I wait upon a man who carries all the science of Arabia in his head and saddle-bags. Ecco!" Nello held up the shaving-cloth with an air of invitation, and Maestro Tacco advanced and seated himself under a preoccupation with his heat and his self-importance, which made him quite deaf to the irony conveyed in Nello's officiously polite speech.
They strip away the coffin's gay upper garment; they leave but the under-dress of black box, painted to that favor with pitch. They shove it into the grave-digger's arms, where he stands in the trench, in the soft earth, rich with bones. He lets it slide swiftly to the ground thump! Ecco fatto!
The Senate had outdone itself in luxury of imagination. "Ecco!"
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