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Updated: June 8, 2025
Every one who has been present at an Italian festa knows what it is like men shouting and elbowing their way through the people with flaming lamps fitted to their baskets, selling water and syrups, cakes and confectionery, melon seeds and peanuts others going about with halfpenny buttonholes of gelsomina, each neatly folded up in a vine-leaf to keep the scent in three independent piano-organs and a brass band in the middle distance an enthusiastic blind singer, a survival of Demodocus in the Odyssey, with a falsetto voice and no bridge to his nose keeping a group of listeners spellbound in the foreground with their favourite ballad, illustrated by a large sheet of oil paintings in eight tableaux, about the man who murdered his wife and mother with one bloody knife there it is lying on the supper-table and was ultimately taken by the carabinieri and executed.
I believe we should not have been here, but we have no other place so suitable for her sufferings as this jail." "Gelsomina, thou art happier than I, even in thy prison. I am fatherless motherless I could almost say, friendless." "And this from a lady of the Tiepolo!" "All is not as it seems in this evil world, kind Gelsomina. We have had many Doges, but we have had much suffering.
Miss Cooper writes that when their "family was living on the cliffs of Sorrento a young peasant girl became one of the household, half nurse, half playfellow to the children. She bore the sweet name of Gelsomina.
He knew how unceasingly the eyes of the Councils, through their agents, were on the movements of those in whom they took an interest, and he was far from feeling all the advantage circumstances had seemingly thrown in his way. Annina was certainly in his power, and it was not possible that she had yet communicated the intelligence, derived from Gelsomina, to any of her employers.
All was over, and still the entire scene appeared to be delusion. "Take away this maniac!" said an officer of the police, pointing to Gelsomina as he spoke. He was obeyed with Venetian readiness, but his words proved prophetic before his servitors had quitted the square. The Carmelite scarce breathed.
But the sensitive interest that a being of the gentle nature and secluded habits of Gelsomina took in her narrative, won upon her own natural frankness, and, in a manner nearly imperceptible to herself, she made the keeper's daughter mistress of most of the circumstances under which she had entered the prison.
Gelsomina knew by the sound that they were in one of the smaller canals, and she augured well of the boatman's knowledge of the town. They soon stopped by the side of a water-gate, and the man appeared on the step, holding an arm to aid her in ascending, after the manner of people of his craft. Gelsomina bade him wait her return, and proceeded.
Tell me, Gelsomina, and as thou valuest thy salvation deceive me not canst thou look at me without horror?" Gelsomina trembled, but she raised her eyes, and smiled on him as the weeping infant returns the earnest and tender regard of its mother. The effect of that glance on Jacopo was so powerful that his sinewy frame shook, until the wondering Carmelite heard the clanking of his chains.
Gelsomina lingered to gaze wistfully into the face of her companion, but finding no visible sign of the agony he endured she went on.
The building, unhappily like most other edifices intended to repress the vices of society, was vast, strong, and intricate within, although, as has been already intimated, of a chaste and simple beauty externally, that might seem to have been adopted in mockery of its destination. Gelsomina entered a low, narrow, and glazed gallery, when she stopped.
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