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Updated: June 9, 2025
DOÑA MATILDE. ¡Bruno! BRUNO. Jesús, señorita, ¿ya se levantó usted? DOÑA MATILDE. Sí, no he podido cerrar los ojos en toda la noche. BRUNO. Ya se habrá usted estado leyendo hasta las tres o las cuatro, según costumbre.... DOÑA MATILDE. No es eso.... BRUNO. Se le habrá arrebatado el calor a la cabeza.... DOÑA MATILDE. Repito que....
We have had no news from my father in America for two years. No remittances ever come from him. He may be dead, for all we know. Our land lies half untilled; we cannot pay for the hire of day labourers. We live from hand to mouth; my mother is not strong; I earn what I can; one of my sisters is obliged to work at Levanto. Think what that means, for us! Perhaps that is why you call me thoughtful.
You know how I like carrying little parcels about for other people's friends. What a nuisance! Now I shall have to travel with my bags half empty." "Don't blame me, my dear fellow. I did not tell him to die, did I?".... It must have been about midnight as the train steamed into Levanto station. Snow was falling; you could hear the moan of the sea hard by; an icy wind blew down from the mountains.
Is everything prepared for to-morrow? LOMELLINO. Everything, prince but the courier, who was despatched this morning to Levanto, is not yet returned, nor is Spinola arrived. Should he be intercepted! I'm much alarmed GIANETTINO. Fear nothing. You have that list at hand? My lord the list? I do not know I must have left it at home in my other pocket.
My two hundred Germans will have surrounded the senate-house. At that moment I enter and claim homage as the Duke. LOMELLINO. And what of Andreas? He is an old man. LOMELLINO. But, my lord, the paper? GIANETTINO. Take it, and let it be circulated among our party. This letter must be dispatched by express to Levanto.
I only know that we moved at daybreak up the valley behind Levanto and presently turned to our right past a small mill of some kind; olives, then chestnuts, accompanied the path which grew steeper every moment, and was soon ankle-deep in slush from the melted snow. This was his daily walk, he explained.
"She would say: 'You are the oldest male; you should conduct yourself accordingly. What is this lack of judgment I hear about?" "I begin to understand." Siena Driven from the Paradise of Levanto, I landed not on earth but with one jump in Hell. The Turks figure forth a Hell of ice and snow; this is my present abode; its name is Siena.
Let her try to discover him tonight, when she is just closing her eyes to sleep, all alone, and thinking about things There I leave it, for the present. Unless a miracle occurs, I fear I will have quitted Levanto before that festival comes round. True, they have played the fool with me how often!
I have loafed into Levanto, on the recommendation of an Irish friend who, it would seem, had reasons of his own for sending me there. "Try Levanto," he said. "A little place below Genoa. Nice, kindly people. And sunshine all the time. Hotel Nazionale. Yes, yes! The food is all right. Quite all right. Now please do not let us start that subject "
He may drink only milk, because wine, which he dearly loves "and such good wine, here at Levanto" it always deranges the action of some vital organ inside. The face is not unlike that of Thackeray. A man of keen understanding who can argue the legs off a cow when duly roused, he seems far too good for a small place like this, where, by the way, he is a newcomer.
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