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Next to Guiseppe Garibaldi I hated Edmund Spenser, and it may be from a vengeful remembrance of those early struggles with a difficult form of versification, that, although throughout my literary life I have been a lover of England's earlier poet, and have delighted in the quaintness and naïveté of Chaucer, I have refrained from reading more than a casual stanza or two of the "Faëry Queen."
I recalled to the count's mind the conversation which had passed respecting him among the French soldiers, and also directed his attention to the fact that the subject of my remarks had been referred to in terms which seemed to leave no room for doubt as to his treachery. "But the individual of whom you speak was called Guiseppe, was he not?" remarked the count, when I had said my say.
It must have been baked in the biggest cheese-frame that the dairy could supply; or the rim of a cart-wheel might have been used to frame its monstrous circle. Certainly, as Guiseppe set it down before Hildegarde, it seemed to cover the whole width of the great table. On its top the frosting was piled high, in fantastic shapes.
"No, signor, I did not; but he had a bag with him when he landed, no doubt they are in that." "A bag? What sort of a bag? I see no bag here anywhere. Perhaps look here, Monsieur Guiseppe, or whatever your name is, I hope you are not playing fast and loose with us.
They have been much damaged. For many years used as a sacristy, the greasy smoke of the incense had so blackened the walls that the frescoes were nearly invisible. The skilful cleaning of Signor Guiseppe Missaghi, at the instigation of Signor Cavalcaselle, has restored to them much of their original beauty, although the colour still remains somewhat obscured.
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