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Now the cities of Tuscany entered, each accompanied by a symbolical procession, and sang their praises to the bride. The second entertainment was a prose comedy of Landi, preceded by a prologue and provided with five intermezzi. In the first intermezzo Aurora, in a blazing chariot, awakened all nature by her song.
Your lovely songs have been ringing in my ears ever since I heard them! 'Where did you hear them? On a piano-organ? he asked. 'You're too bad! Isn't he naughty? No, when you sang here last. Mr Mitchell came up, and Madame Frabelle turned away. 'Dieu merci! La pauvre! Elle me donne sur les nerfs ce soir, said Landi.
'Oh, by the way, Edith, did you consult Landi about him? Bruce inquired. 'You said you intended to. 'Oh yes, I did. Landi can see no sign of musical genius yet. 'Dear, dear! said Bruce. 'Ah, but I am convinced he's wrong. Wait a few years and you'll find he'll agree with me yet, said Madame Frabelle.
I'm longing to tell you about it. I want your advice, said Edith, smiling. 'Tout se sait; tout se fait; tout s'arrange, sententiously remarked Landi, who was not above talking oracular commonplaces at times. 'Oh, it isn't one of those things, Landi. 'Not? Are you sure? Don't be sad, Edith. Be cheerful. Tiens! Tiens! Tiens!
Captain Singleton was announced, and a boy or so he looked dark-haired and sunburnt, entered the office. For eighteen months he had been stationed in the fort at Landi Kotal, whence the road dips down between the bare brown cliffs towards the plains and mountains of Afghanistan.
The author of the piece was Antonio Landi, a gentleman of Florence, and the interludes and music were in the hands of Giovan Battista Strozzi, a man of very beautiful genius, who was then very young.
She's not Spanish at all. She had rather a blow last week, poor girl. Her father nearly went bankrupt; she was quite in despair. It seems your friend Valdez came to the rescue in the most generous way, and she's immensely grateful. 'He helped her, did he? said Landi, smiling. 'He seems to have behaved most generously and charmingly. Do you think he is in love with her, Landi?
Edith and Madame Frabelle had long talks next day over the little dinner-party, and the people of their intimate circle whom she had met. She was delighted with Landi, though a little frightened of him, as most people were when they first knew him, unless he really liked them immensely. She impressed on Edith to beware of Mr. Mitchell.
Bianchina, the wife of Vergusio Landi, seduced by the great Galeazzo Visconti, who had been her husband's friend and ally, became the cause of a most ferocious war which was waged between the cities of Milan and Piacenza; Virginia Galucci, abducted by Alberto Carbonesi, brought about a long-standing hostility between these two families and caused much blood to be spilled; many other instances might be cited which would reveal the same state of affairs.
The quiet researches of the Prince of Musignano as a student of natural history, may be looked upon as so many conquests in the kingdom of Nature; and though they have been eclipsed by the more brilliant and sanguinary triumphs of the Emperor, yet do they far more entitle him to the gratitude and respect of men. He was the true hero of the hunter-naturalist Landi.
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