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She spoke eagerly and hotly, fearing her courage would falter before she could make known her wish: "Ecco, Messer Sandro," she whispered, casting a furtive look about "who is there in Florence like me?" "There is no one," calmly answered Sandro. "I will be your Lady Venus," she went on breathlessly, stepping closer "You shall paint me rising from the sea!"
One of the ladies, dressed in black-and-white check, was immensely stout. She seemed to lead the conversation, which was carried on with extreme vivacity in very loud and not melodious voices. "Ecco the gathering of the geese!" said the Marchesino, touching Artois on the arm.
"Good-day, Messer Domenico," said Nello to the foremost of the two visitors who entered the shop, while he nodded silently to the other. "You come as opportunely as cheese on macaroni. Ah! you are in haste wish to be shaved without delay ecco! And this is a morning when every one has grave matter on his mind.
And is not better pleased when Penelli telleth that Fra Paolo is the 'miracle of the age in every science. 'So, I will prove it, saith Penelli, 'for verily the world knoweth the great Ghetaldo for a mathematician! Come, then, with problems the most difficult thou canst prepare, on a day it may please thee to name, and meet Fra Paolo at my table, without warning to him. Ecco!
Nobody thinks anything of what children say. People only laugh and say 'Ecco, it's a baby talking. But when we are older it is all different. People pay attention to us. We are of more importance then." He did not mention Ruffo. He was too delicate to do that, for instinctively he understood how childish his Padroncina still was. And, at that moment, Vere did not think of Ruffo.
I believe it was the Principessa. So, ecco! And did we not have a delicious evening at Miss Bracely's the other night? Such lovely singing, and so interesting to learn that Signor Cortese made it all up. And those lovely words, for though I didn't understand much of them, they sounded so exquisite. And fancy Miss Bracely talking Italian so beautifully when we none of us knew she talked it at all."
Their prayer, however, is heeded by all; and a gay scene enough it is, especially at night, when the great cups filled with lard are lighted, and the shadows dance on the crowd, and the light flashes on the tinsel-covered festoons that sway with the wind, and illuminates the great booth, while the smoke rises from the great caldrons which flank it on either side, and the cooks, all in white, ladle out the dripping frittelle into large polished platters, and laugh and joke, and laud their work, and shout at the top of their lungs, "Ecco le belle, ma belle frittelle!"
"It ought, really, if it should be a thing of this sort, to take its little value from having belonged to one's self." "Ecco!" said the Prince just triumphantly enough. "There you are." Behind the dealer were sundry small cupboards in the wall. Two or three of these Charlotte had seen him open, so that her eyes found themselves resting on those he had not visited. But she completed her admission.
Ecco Fior-r-r! which has been making itself audible over all the rest, at intervals, the whole day through.
Giuseppe rowed him across the inlet and to the far side of the Sirens' Isle, from which the little path wound upward to the cottage. Here, among the rocks, a boat was moored. "Ecco, signore!" cried Giuseppe. "Salvatore has come back from Messina! Here is his boat!" Artois felt a pang of anxiety, of regret. He wished he had been there before the fisherman had returned.
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