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Updated: May 26, 2025
But doubtless when a sense of "mere character," shameless incomparable character, has brought one to this it is time one should pause. One may at the blest end of May say without injustice to anybody that the state of mind of many a <i>forestiero</i> in Rome is one of intense impatience for the moment when all other <i>forestieri</i> shall have taken themselves off.
I therefore edged myself through the mass of people until I reached the line of soldiers, and, catching the eye of the commanding officer as he passed by, I beckoned to him, and, as he came to me, I said, 'Sono un Americano, un forestiero, signore, which I had no sooner said than, taking me by the hand, he drew me in, and, politely bowing, gave me leave to go where I pleased."
The cabman was summoned and fined accordingly; but the magistrate remarked to my friend when he came to give evidence that it was fortunate for him that he complained first, for the cabman had come later in the day and asked for his fare for the night which he had passed at the foot of the stairs waiting for the return of the forestiero; and he added that if the cabman had come first, my friend would have been obliged to pay the claim.
With good-natured indulgence for what he seemed to consider as the whim of an eccentric Forestiero, the Italian carelessly threw his eyes upwards; but, as soon as he perceived that there was really no light, he lifted his hands with a vivid expression of wonder and alarm. "The lamp is extinguished!" cried he. "The lamp that has been burning these four hundred years!
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