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Elisa having furnished her due with her pitiful story, Filomena the queen, who was tall and goodly of person and smiling and agreeable of aspect beyond any other of her sex, collecting herself, said, "Needs must the covenant with Dioneo be observed, wherefore, there remaining none other to tell than he and I, I will tell my story first, and he, for that he asked it as a favour, shall be the last to speak."
You must be a man, cavaliere." Then he stepped into the kitchen, and called out for the horses to be put to. The farm hands had slunk away to one of the outhouses, and Filomena and Jacopone stood bowing and curtseying as the carriage drew up at the kitchen door. In a corner of the big vaulted room the little foundling was washing the dishes, heaping the scraps in a bowl for herself and the fowls.
If I can only read and write, I can earn twice as much as I otherwise could. Then I can be a cameriera, and bring my mistress a written account of expenditure every week." Filomena knows that Saredo is a professor at the University. But she does not know what a professor or a University is. She puts her question like this: "Probably my idea of what a university is, may not be quite correct?"
"I wonder," said Avice, innocently, quite unaware of the course of her companion's thoughts, "whether, if Aunt Filomena knew her duty better, she might not give poor Uncle Dan a little more rest. He is good, in his way, and as far as he knows. I wish I knew more! But then," Avice concluded, with a little laugh, "I am only a woman."
T' chap that could strike our Filomena dumb mun ha' come straight fro' Heaven, for there isn't his like o' earth! Now, Father, do just tell a body, what did you say to her?" "I told her how to be happy." Dan stared. "She wants no tellin' that, I'll go bail! she's got every mortal thing her own way." "That is not the way to be happy," answered the priest.
When the ceremony was finished and not a room unvisited, Filomena flew back to duty, and carefully, but not anxiously, lifted the lid of each marmite on the huge stove. She had possessed her soul in perfect confidence that the patron saint of the household would look after her dishes during her absence, and she would have been not only surprised but indignant if anything had been burnt.
And Dan, at first astounded beyond measure, grew to accept this conclusion as a matter of course, and to say "Let her alone, and she'll come round." And then Avice's eyes were opened. One day, when she was unusually softened by the death of Susanna's baby, Filomena opened her heart to her niece. "Eh, Avice, it's hard work! Nobody knows how hard, that hasn't had a temper as mastered 'em.
The Romans, on the other hand, who go to church one day, kill people the next, and will not let go about the streets in peace. I am quite sorry that she is to go home at Easter; I shall miss her face about the house. But I have missed more. Late evening. They have come back from the Carnival. Filomena came in and presented me with an object the use of which is an enigma to me.
Then rising they addressed them, as was their wont, to dance and song, and while Filomena led the dance: "Filostrato," said the queen, "being minded to follow in the footsteps of our predecessors, and that, as by their, so by our command a song be sung; and well witting that thy songs are even as thy stories, to the end that no day but this be vexed with thy misfortunes, we ordain that thou give us one of them, whichever thou mayst prefer."
"Oh, you're there, are you?" demanded the amiable Filomena. "You just thank the stars you've got no children! If ever an honest woman were plagued with six good-for-nothing, sluttish, slatternly shrews of girls as me!
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