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He has, I am sure, an Italian-English phrase book, which he consults hurriedly in the kitchen, for, whenever he sets a new course before one, he shoots out some carefully prepared and usually quite irrelevant sentence, and watches eagerly to see if one understands.
Overcome with having the public attention thus drawn upon her, pretty Mrs. Repetto in the best Italian-English she could muster, confessed her inability to either understand or comply, whereupon the baby, bearing no malice in her present high good-humor, proceeded to take them herself. "This little pig went to market," the angelic accents declared, while her ladyship smiled sweetly upon Mrs.
He studied it and put it in his pocket and took it out and studied it again. He was still puzzling over it half an hour later when Gustavo came to inquire if the signore had need of anything. Had he need of anything! He sent Gustavo flying to the stationer's in search of an Italian-English dictionary. It was four o'clock in the afternoon and all the world except Constance was taking a siesta.
"Indeed, I wish I had a dictionary. Mine's French-English. I asked Clotilde if she had an Italian-English or an Italian-French, and she said yes, but at home. Isn't it provoking? I certainly wasn't going to show this to her, and get her to translate it for me before I'd consulted with you." "Bother!" said Aurora, thoughtfully, with her eyes on the cryptic print.
"Her Excellency, will she have the politeness," said Daphne slowly, reading from a tiny Italian-English phrase-book, "the politeness to" She stopped helpless. Old Giacomo gazed at her with questioning eyes. The girl turned the pages swiftly and chose another phrase. "I go," she announced, "I go to make a walk." Light flashed into Giacomo's face.
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