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Why, he asked himself excitedly, why had they come? The Signor Papa closed his green umbrella, and having dropped into a chair obligingly near the summer-house took off his hat and fanned himself. He had a tendency toward being stout, and felt the heat. The girl, meanwhile, crossed the court and jangled the bell; she waited two three minutes, then she pulled the rope again. 'Gustavo! Oh, Gustavo!
At the time when Gustavo was much better known at Turin than Camillo the suspicious radical could not persuade himself that one brother was not as much of an aristocrat as the other. When Mr.
Having selected five crisp five-lire notes, he placed them under the sugar bowl, and watched his companion while he blew three meditative rings of smoke. 'Gustavo, he inquired, 'do you suppose you could find me some nice, gentle, lady-like donkeys, and a red sash and a pair of earrings? Gustavo's fascinated gaze had been fixed upon the sugar bowl and he had only half caught the words.
'And, Gustavo, she turned to him with a sweetly serious air that admitted no manner of doubt but that she was in earnest. 'I told this young man that in case he cared to do any mountain climbing, you would find him the same guide. It would be very useful for him to have one who speaks English. Gustavo bowed in mute acquiescence. He could find no adequate words for the situation.
He's engaged for to-morrow, but after that I dare say he'll be free. Gustavo can tell you about him. She nodded and smiled and turned down the arbour. The young man stood where she left him, with folded arms, watching her pink gown as it receded down the long sun-flecked alley hung with purple and green.
Then when I get out, you come forward with your politest bow and ask me if I want a room. I'll attend to the rest do you understand? Gustavo nodded with glistening eyes. He had always felt stirring within him powers for diplomacy, for finesse, and he rose to the occasion magnificently. Tony turned away and went bounding upstairs two steps at a time, chuckling as he went.
Zay say it is a lie, zat he is American citizen; he is an officer who is dessert from ze Italian army. Zay say he just pretend he cannot spik Italian but it is not true. He know ten leven words. They came hurrying up the steps and surrounded him, Mr. Wilder no less shocked than Gustavo himself. 'Arrested as a deserter? It's an outrage! he thundered.
Of all Italian actors, Gustavo Modena was the most renowned. He is to the stage of his native land what Garrick was to that of England, and his conception of the various parts in classic drama, his "points," and even his dress, have become traditional, and are almost invariably retained by his followers.
I already know by heart the list of guests in every hotel in Switzerland. 'Ah, it is diversion zat you wish? Have you seen zat ver' beautiful Luini in ze chapel of San Bartolomeo? It is four hundred years old. 'Yes, Gustavo, I have seen the Luini in the chapel of San Bartolomeo. I derived all the pleasure to be got out of it the first afternoon I came. 'Ze garden of Prince Sartonio-Crevelli?
Yesterday he had rung the bell and demanded a partner to play lawn tennis, as if the hotel kept partners laid away in drawers like so many sheets. He crumpled up the letter and stuffed it in his pocket. 'I say, Gustavo, what do you think of this? They're going to stay in Lucerne till the tenth that's next week and they hope I won't mind waiting; it will be nice for me to have a rest.
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