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Enrico Caruso enjoys the reputation of being the greatest tenor since Italo Campanini. The latter was the legitimate successor of Brignoli, an artist whose wonderful singing made his uncouth stage presence a matter of little moment. Caruso's voice at its best recalls Brignoli to the veteran opera habitué.
Clotilde and Italo call her attention to every deserving case, and are guided in this by the simple knowledge that Nell can't hold on to her money. Of course it's her good heart. She's done a lot for them and their family, too, I've discovered. I don't know just how much, but I can guess by their look of licking their chops.
Hawthorne, and of such various kinds, that though one is bound to be glad to be among your friends, one needn't need one? feel exactly flattered." She seemed to consider this, but instead of taking it up, went on with the subject of Italo. "He entertains me. He knows all about everybody in Florence and tells me." "He gossips, you mean." Again she considered a moment before going on.
"You're to play all those lovely things I'm so fond of," she directed him. "'The Swallow and the Prisoner, 'The Butterflies, 'The Cascade of Pearls. And don't forget the 'Souvenir of Saint Helena. Then the one of the soldiers marching off and the soldiers coming home again. All our favorites. Mr. Fane Are you acquainted with each other? Italo you'll have to tell him your name yourself.
Money had so often gone from her hand to his. She with generous ease, as if passing a box of candy to children, tendered him some three or four times as much as to the others. But there Italo showed what he was made of.
"Yes, she's coming to keep house. She speaks English quite well, because she's had so much to do with English and Americans, being a teacher of Italian and French. It began with Italo wanting us to take lessons of her. But, bless you, I don't want to study! I can pick up all I need without. We said, however, 'Bring her to see us. And he did. She's real nice." "Does she resemble her brother?"
The south wall is dominated by Z. V. Zanetti's richly decorative "Tree" . Beside it, on the cut-off of the wall, is Guiseppe Mentessi's gripping "Soul of the Stones" . Mentessi won the gold medal with this picture, as Italo Brass did with his "Bridge Across the Lagoon" . Sculpture in this room is represented by small bronzes and Ernesto Biondi's almost terrible "St. Francis d'Assisi" . Uruguay.
Hawthorne interrupted them, "play that lovely thing of your own now you know, the one we're so crazy about, that by and by turns into a waltz." Without laying upon the ladies the tiresome necessity of pressing him, the composer plunged into this masterpiece, and Gerald sat back again, wondering what the little man thought of hearing himself called Italo by the fair forestiera.
Then, after you had so politely seen us off, Estelle and I in the carriage put on black dominos and crows' beaks, and after driving around a couple of blocks came back and found Italo and Clotilde waiting for us. Clotilde had put off her black domino in the dressing-room; she was dressed under it exactly like her brother. D'you see now how we worked it?
She was pleased with Italo in a new way, and said to herself that she must make him some rich little, but unobjectionable little, gift to remember this occasion by, a gold pencil, or a pearl scarf-pin, or a cigar case to be proud of. She went to bed with her head full of serenade and serenaders, her head all lighted up inside with the glory of having been the object of a tribute so flattering.
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