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Updated: June 28, 2025
"And, if I did, it wuddent be for the likes of no I-talian Dago, if id's him ye're a-dthrivin' at, not intinding anny disrespect to your friend, Mr. Richlin', and indeed I don't deny he's a perfect gintleman, but, indeed, Mr. Richlin', I'm just after thinkin' that you and yer lady wouldn't have no self-respect for Kate Riley if she should be changing her name."
Leggatt's care for your interests 'ad extended to sheathing the car in matting and gunny-bags to preserve her paint-work. She was all swathed up like an I-talian baby. 'He is careful about his paint-work, I said. 'For a man with no Service experience I should say he was fair homicidal on the subject.
Tell you wot, it's that I-talian gunboat the guv'nor spoke about." "But she was not in port when we left." "No. We passed her comin' in." "Ah, she recognized us?" "Not much. We were under sail, an carried no masthead light. When I twigged hers I tied a couple of sou'westers over our side lights.
"You see, after I quit work on the 'ledge, I was put to 't for a job, and there come along a feller by the name of Lamson the agent of an insurance company, who wanted me to go to Bermuda and git up some forty-two pieces o' white I-talian marble that had been wrecked three years before off the harbor of Hamilton. They ran from three to twenty-one tons each, he said.
"I'll warrant he took good care of this," said he. "He was an I-talian, and no more of an American citizen than a Chinese; I wonder he hadn't called himself John Jones, that's the name most of the foreigners used to take when they got their papers.
Ristofalo regained his financial feet almost, as one might say, at a single hand-spring. He amused Mary and John and Mrs. Riley almost beyond limit with his simple story of how he did it. "Ye'd better hurry and be getting up out o' that sick bed, Mr. Richlin'," said the widow, in Ristofalo's absence, "or that I-talian rascal'll be making himself entirely too agree'ble to yer lady here. Ha! ha!
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