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'An ordinary girl...working class...Russian. 'Did Yakov Ivanitch care for her? 'Well, yes ... he was fond of her. And she...when she heard my master was dead, she was terribly upset. She's a good sort of girl. 'Ask her in, ask her in. Elisei went out and at once came back. He was followed by a girl in a striped cotton gown, with a dark kerchief on her head, that half hid her face.
Yakov Ivanitch used often to talk of you, she added, getting up and bowing; 'he always loved you and thought of you. I met Elisei Timofeitch the day before yesterday, and wondered whether you wouldn't be willing to assist me, as I'm out of a place just now.... 'With the greatest pleasure, Maria ... let me ask, what's your name from your father?
There was, then, in Florence a noble youth, whose name was Tedaldo Elisei and who, being beyond measure enamoured of a lady called Madam Ermellina, the wife of one Aldobrandino Palermini, deserved for his praiseworthy fashions, to enjoy his desire.
True it is that in my youth I loved over all the ill-fortuned youth whose death is laid to my husband's charge, which death I have bewept as sore as it was grievous to me, for that, albeit I showed myself harsh and cruel to him before his departure, yet neither his long absence nor his unhappy death hath availed to tear him from my heart. Quoth the pilgrim, 'The hapless youth who is dead you never loved, but Tedaldo Elisei ay.
'Yes, sir, with him, to be sure ... whom else would I be with? 'Take me to him quickly. 'To be sure! to be sure! This way, please, this way ... we're stopping here at the tavern. Elisei led me across the square, incessantly repeating 'Well, now, won't Yakov Ivanitch be pleased!
Know then that there was in Florence a young noble, his name Tedaldo Elisei, who being beyond measure enamoured of a lady hight Monna Ermellina, wife of one Aldobrandino Palermini, and by reason of his admirable qualities richly deserving to have his desire, found Fortune nevertheless adverse, as she is wont to be to the prosperous.
On seeing me, she was much taken aback and turned away. 'What's the matter? Elisei said to her; 'go on, don't be afraid. I went up to her and took her by the hand. 'What is your name? I asked her. 'Masha, she replied in a soft voice, stealing a glance at me.
The stock is said to have been of Roman origin, of the race of the Frangipani; but the only certain trace of it is to Cacciaguida, a Florentine cavalier of the house of the Elisei, who died in the Crusades. Dante gives an account of him in his Paradiso.
'Such a long time has passed since the day we parted, I thought, 'she has, most likely, forgotten everything there was between us in those days. I sent Elisei, whom I had taken into my service after the death of Pasinkov, with my visiting-card to her door, and told him to inquire whether she was at home, and whether I might see her.
He was about to put them the torture, to elicit the true state of the case, when, their courage failing, they confessed without the least reserve, severally at first, and then jointly, that 'twas they that had slain Tedaldo Elisei, not knowing who he was.
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