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Fausto admires you, but you frighten him." "Is he Gemma's adorer?" she asked with a careful display of indifference. "Yes, he is always amoroso." "Ah! Does he smoke?" "Yes. Why?" "Oh, nothing," she said. She did not really believe that the man on the stairs could have been Fausto. Gemma would not look twice at such a harmless infant now.
Memories of a conversation, by Tiber banks, with Fausto, who was born here and vaunted it to be the fairest city on earth. Rome was quite a passable place, but as to Alatri "You never saw such walls in all your life. They are not walls. They are precipices. And our water is colder than the Acqua Marcia." "Walls and water say little to me. But if the town produces other citizens like yourself "
The account is given by a Portuguese, called Fausto Rodriguez, who was a witness of the fact, has deposed it upon oath, and whose juridical testimony is in the process of the Saint's canonization. "'We were at sea, says Rodriguez, 'Father Francis, John Raposo, and myself, when there arose a tempest which alarmed all the mariners.
The political fruits of our successes in Chili and Peru now began to manifest themselves in the recognition of the South American Republics by the United States, so that Chili had assumed the rank of a recognised member of the family of nations. I took with me as a guest to Quintero, my former prisoner, Colonel Fausto del Hoyo, the Commandant at Valdivia on our reduction of that fortress.
One of them was Fausto de Almeida. When the ex-priest, Ottoni, visited Vargem Guande some years ago to preach the gospel this man Almeida, with a great crowd of boys equipped with tin cans, met him at the station. This troupe escorted Ottoni to the church and stood outside making as much noise as possible. He offered the ex-priest a loaded cigar, which Ottoni declined with kindly thanks.
What is your country?" She pointed vaguely to the south-west mountains, where the snow on the upper ranges was still lying with bands of cloud resting on it. "From the Abruzzo?" She was silent. She did not know the mountains of her birthplace by their names. "Who was your father?" he asked, with some impatience. "He was Black Fausto." "What did he do for a living?"
It held the broken promise of power, she thought sorrowfully, and she stroked the outstretched palm gently as though it were a half-frozen bird that she would bring to life again. He closed his eyes, smiling. "Ah, your little fingers are soft and warm." "You were at the theatre last night," he said presently. "Fausto saw you. How do you like your cousin's fidanzato?" "Not at all."
The grief of the Milanese bards for their duke's cruel fate found utterance in the following lament: Son quel duca in Milano Che compianto sto in dolore ... Io diceva che un sel Dio Era in cielo e un Moro in terra E secondo il mio disio Io faveva pace e guerra Son quel duca di Milano," etc. Fausto Andrelino wrote a Latin poem beginning with the lines
Poor Astorre had not been devout in any sense, but he had written his friend a long letter on the day after Gemma's suicide, and he had asked for her prayers then. "Fausto told me how you knelt there in the street beside the dead Odalisque and said the Pater-noster and the Miserere. Perhaps you will do as much for me one day.
The minister's conduct was so gentle and kind that Fausto, when he bethought himself, went home in a rage, became intoxicated, and in order to vent his wrath, went out into his back yard and fired his pistols. A little later one of his sisters was converted, and by her good testimony not long after that when she died, he was greatly impressed.
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