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A priest came by, then a lawyer, then a poet; but the sbirro made no sign. At last there appeared a young officer, dressed in brilliant uniform, who passed gaily along, humming between his teeth a tune out of the last opera. The sbirro gave the signal. Up sprang the lazzarone and followed the officer. Both disappeared round a corner. Presently the lazzarone returned with his ransom in his hand.
"As to the invalid, he at first tried to step over the cord fastened across the door, but the height at which the lazzarone had fixed it was too great for wooden legs to accomplish. He then endeavoured to untie it, but with no better success; for the lazzarone had fastened it in a knot compared to which the one of Gordian celebrity would have appeared a mere slip-knot.
"'The invalid soldier who accompanies us to visit Pompeii. "'I do not want an invalid soldier. "'Then you cannot visit Pompeii. "'Not by paying? "'No. "'But I will pay double, treble, four times, whatever they ask. "'No, no, no. "'Oh! said the Englishman, and he fell into a brown study, during which the lazzarone amused himself by trying to jump over his own shadow.
"Miss Porter'll tell ye about this wan," said Mike, diplomatically. "He's shaped like a good horse, an' his sire, old Lazzarone, landed many a purse, an' the 'Suburban, too won it on three legs, fer he was clean gone in his pins, I'll take me oath to that. He was a good horse whin he liked. Perhaps Lauzanne'll do the same some day, fer all I know."
If it were set with thorns that drew my blood, I would rather wear this royal diadem than the light coronet of an insignificant duchess." "And I," exclaimed Amelia, "would rather wear the ring of a beggar than be the wife of a king who neither reads nor writes, and throughout all Europe is known by the name of a lazzarone."
The real lazzarone, he had admitted, was a vile fellow; but the ideal lazzarone and his own had been subtly idealized was a precursor of the millennium. Mr. Leavenworth had apparently just transferred his unhurrying gaze to the figure. "Something in the style of the Dying Gladiator?" he sympathetically observed. "Oh no," said Roderick seriously, "he 's not dying, he 's only drunk!"
"'I will give its weight in sovereigns double its weight even. "'I tell you it is not to be sold, persisted the lazzarone; 'but, added he, changing his tone, 'I have already given your excellence two pieces of advice which you liked, I will now give you a third: Do not buy the statue steal it. "'Oh oh! that will be very original, and we have a blind invalid too. Capital!
"'Ooh! cried the Englishman, delighted with the advice, 'by all means a deaf one. Here is a piaster for you for having thought of it. The lazzarone ran to the guard-house, and soon returned with an old soldier who was as deaf as a post.
He could dance a Tarantella like a Lazzarone, and execute a Cracovienne with all the mincing graces of a ballet heroine. His powers of mimicry, indeed, were great and versatile. But in nothing was he so happy as in a Parliamentary debate.
"'And why so? inquired the other in his broken Italian. "'Because I do not wish to be hung. "'And who would dare to hang you? "'The king. "'Why? "'Because you are speaking ill of him. "'An Englishman has a right to say whatever he likes. "'It may be so, but a lazzarone has not. "'But you have said nothing. "'But I hear everything. "'Who will tell what you hear?
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