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"The way of the rocks?" he said. "Si, signore. But you must go barefooted and be as nimble as a goat." "Do you doubt me, Gasparino?" He looked at the boy hard, with a deliberately quizzing kindness, that was gay but asked forgiveness, too, and surely promised amendment. "I have never doubted my padrone." They said nothing more till they were at the wall of rock.
To a similar description of him Gasparino adds that "all women upon whom he so much as casts his eyes he moves to love him; attracting them as the lodestone attracts iron;" which is, it must be admitted, a most undesirable reputation in a churchman.
But as they saw Gaspare's light figure leaping over the hill edge, his dancing eyes fixed shrewdly, with a sort of boyish scolding, upon them, their hands fell apart, their faces relaxed. "Gasparino!" said Maurice. "It was you who called!" "Si, signore." He came up to them. Maddalena's oval face had flushed, and she dropped the full lids over her black eyes as she said: "Buon giorno, Gaspare."
"Come along, Gasparino, and tell us what we are to have. You must order everything. Where's the cameriere? Cameriere! Cameriere!" He struck on his glass with a fork. A waiter came running. "Don Gaspare will order for us all," said Maurice to him, pointing to Gaspare. His diplomacy was successful.
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