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"Can it be that Paolo Gambara, wholly given up to domestic cares, absorbed by the charms of the chimney-corner, is neglecting his superhuman genius, leaving his talents to get cold and his imagination to go flat?" Gambara knew all the company; he dwelt in a sphere so far above them all that he no longer cared to repel an attack. He made no reply.
"I dared not appeal to it! My friend, my friend, it is no fault of ours; he does not want to be cured." Six years after this, in January 1837, such artists as were so unlucky as to damage their wind or stringed instruments, generally took them to the Rue Froid-Manteau, to a squalid and horrible house, where, on the fifth floor, dwelt an old Italian named Gambara.
"O as to that as a man he is well enough. But as an ecclesiastic...O, but there!" I broke off shortly, and laughed. "The devil take Messer Gambara!" She smiled. "It is greatly to be feared that he will." But my Lord Gambara was not so lightly to be dismissed that afternoon.
He is dead drunk!" cried Marianna, looking down at her husband with a mingled expression of pity and disgust. The Count, with the help of his servant, picked up Gambara and laid him on his bed. Then Andrea left, his heart exultant with horrible gladness.
"And now begone," said Gambara curtly to me, and wheeling my mule I rode for the bridge of boats, crossed it, and set myself to breast the slopes beyond. Midway up I checked and looked back across the wide water. The light had grown quite strong by now, and in the east there was a faint pink flush to herald the approaching sun.
Mahomet places himself in the hands of his two fathers-in-law; he will abdicate his rule and die in retirement to consolidate his work. His two fathers-in-law, constituted his vicars or Khalifs, appeal to the people. Here you have every emotion, human and divine." Andrea gazed at Gambara in blank amazement.
That picture he eventually transferred to his fresco, and there O bitter irony! you may see me to this day, as the saint in whose ways it was desired that I should follow. Monna Giuliana and I would linger together in talk after the painter had gone; and this would be at about the time that I had my first lessons of Curial life from my Lord Gambara.
He rose to carry the candles into the adjoining room, and before sitting down again he drank a full glass of Giro, a Sardinian wine, as full of fire as the old wines of Tokay can inspire. "Now, you see," said Gambara, "this music is not written for misbelievers, nor for those who know not love.
For her amusement the court jesters laughed and chattered and played their foolish tricks Diodato, who had followed her from Ferrara, and the witty clown Barone, the petted favourite of Isabella d'Este and Veronica Gambara and a dozen other great ladies. And Messer Galeazzo was ready to risk his life and ruin his best clothes, all for the sake of his duchess.
What majestic woe! It will appeal to the most frivolous women, piercing to their inmost nerves if they have no heart. Is not this the very expression of crushed genius?" To Andrea's great astonishment, for Marianna was accustomed to it, Gambara contracted his larynx to such a pitch that the only sound was a stifled cry not unlike the bark of a watch-dog that has lost its voice.
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