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And being a gregarious and inquisitive old man, and withal proud of his tolerable stock of English, he took the liberty of joining them. "Inglese?" inquired he, with a pantomimic shrug. "Quite so," said the tutor, putting up his glass, and inspecting the fellow carefully. "This is the `Cafe d'Angleterre," said the landlord, "but, helas! it is long since the Inglese gentleman come here.
"And what does your captain want with me?" "He ask ransom. You rich Inglese. Property in your own country. You give many thousand lire ransom." "Indeed I can't!" protested Everard. "You've made a big mistake. I don't own any property, and I'm not rich at all. You'd better let me go, or there'll be trouble in store for you when my friends hear of it."
If he had been allowed to take the place due to his abilities, his character, and his reputation, what could he have done that he was unable to do at Edgbaston? We cannot fancy him plunged in crooked ecclesiastical intrigue, like that Inglese italianato, Cardinal Manning. Still less can we fancy him haranguing strikers, and stealing the credit of composing a trade dispute.
Then you had only the port to fear; now you have both the people of the port and this strange ship an Inglese, as they tell me?" "No doubt la Proserpine, Etooell says, and he knows; you remember Etooell, dearest Ghita, the American who was with me at the tower well, he has served in this very ship, and knows her to be la Proserpine, of forty-four."
He procured a large body of workmen, and quarried into the ice; but though he thus proved the superposition of lava for several hundred yards, the ice was so hard, and the expense of quarrying consequently so great, that the works were abandoned. This was on the south-east of the cone, not far from the Casa Inglese.
Possagno is nothing if not Canova, and our guide, a boy, knew all about him, how, more especially, he had first manifested his wonderful genius by modeling a group of sheep out of the dust of the highway, and how an Inglese happening along in his carriage, saw the boy's work and gave him a plateful of gold napoleons. I dare say this is as near the truth as most facts.
"Turn to your horses, you scoundrel," shouted Standish, "or I'll break every bone in your body!" "The horses know the way, Signor Inglese, and all our bones are going to be broken, yours and your sweet bride's as well as mine." The driver took the whip and fired off a fusilade of cracks overhead, beside them, and under them.
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They said her manners were very haughty, her temper very violent; that she led the Inglese a very unhappy life; that there were a girl and a boy, both hers by a former marriage; but when closely questioned whether they were sure that the girl was the Signora's child by the former husband, or whether she was not the child of that husband by a former wife, they could not tell; they could only say that both were called by the same name Cicogna; that the boy was the Signora's favourite that indeed she seemed wrapt up in him; that he died of a rapid decline a few months after Mr.
They give little in fees; but their landlord, their porter, their driver, and their boatman pillage them with the same impunity that they rob an Inglese. His talk was amusingly instructive, and went to illustrate the strong municipal spirit which still dominates all Italy, and which is more inimical to an effectual unity among Italians than Pope or Kaiser has ever been.
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