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Updated: June 7, 2025
He approaches her, secretly making horns against the evil-eye with his fingers. "You saved my life, now you must save my honor." The words came hissing into his ear. Adamo drew back a step or two. "Blessed mother, what ails her?" But he held his tongue. The marchesa stands before him drawn up to her full height, every nerve and muscle strained to the utmost. "Adamo, do you hear?
"Somebody must have looked on the povera signora with the evil-eye, Signor Dottore." Giuseppe crossed himself. "It seems so," the doctor replied, gravely. He was almost as superstitious as the contadini among whom he labored. "Ecco, Signor Dottore!" The doctor looked up. At the arch stood a figure holding a little lamp. Almost immediately, two more figures appeared behind it. "Il dottore!
He had a pale skin, his fingers, were long and bony, and he rode dexterously in and out, among the tree boles, with his hat in his hand. His horse was as black as himself, and, together, they made a half-brigandish, half-satanic appearance. I reined in sharply, when I saw this person, and he looked at me like the evil-eye, through his great owlish orbs.
Another authority says, that though the Cagots are fine-looking men, hard-working, and good mechanics, yet they bear in their faces, and show in their actions, reasons for the detestation in which they are held: their glance, if you meet it, is the jettatura, or evil-eye, and they are spiteful, and cruel, and deceitful above all other men.
"No, most of them are a tame lot!" broke in Dick, secretly enjoying the Señora's discomfiture. "Caramba! your speech grows more foolish as you talk, Señor!" returned the Señora in a tone of intense disgust. "I see, you too have fallen under her spell. They say she has the evil-eye, Señor Capitan," she went on, addressing the Captain again. "Evil-eye ha, ha! What next?" laughed Dick.
To be sure, as long as the woman's glaring eyes and face distorted by passion were before him, he interpreted her words simply; but when he thought the matter over he said to himself, "The evil-eye! That is all bosh; the girl is in Lady Bassett's secrets; and I am not to see young master: some day I shall know the reason why."
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