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"If you find Uncle John before morning I will give you a thousand lira additional," promised Beth. "We will search faithfully," replied her captain, "but the signorina must not be disappointed if the lawless ones evade us. They have a way of hiding close in the caves, where none may find them. It is regrettable, very; but it is so."
At the gates O'Mally received his pourboire of twenty centesimi, saw his charge outside, closed and locked the gates, and returned to Pietro, who was in a greatly agitated state of mind. "Quando!" he cried. O'Mally handed him the exact amount, minus the lira for the button. "Santa Maria! All thees? How? No more I take dem; you!" O'Mally sat down on the bench and laughed.
"But I forgot to tell you, signore; the candlestick is no longer for sale," observed the Duke, with an evil smile. "Instead, I offer you a magnificent bracelet which is a hundred years old." "Thank you. What's the price?" "A hundred thousand lira, signore." Ferralti started. Then in turn he smiled at his captor. "That is absurd," said he.
She came in, her eyes cast down, a bright spot on either cheek. And while every one in the room held their breath she crossed the floor and paused in front of Faversham. "Mr. Faversham, I ask your pardon, that I was so rude. I " A sob rose in her throat, and she stopped a moment to control it. "Till the other day I was just a poor girl who never had a lira to spend.
I gave the lad a lira and had some trouble in escaping from there, because he followed me around everywhere calling me Excellency." "I think Don Caesar is making fun of us," said Preciozi. "No, no." "But really, how did Rome strike you, on the whole?" asked the abbe. "Well, I find it like a mixture of a monumental great city and a provincial capital." "That is possible," responded the abbe.
Nino wrote again, enclosing a letter addressed to the Contessina di Lira, which he implored me to convey to her, if I loved him. He said he was certain that she had never left Italy. Some instinct seemed to tell him so, and she was evidently in neither London nor Paris, for he had made every inquiry, and had even been to the police about it. Two days after this, Benoni came.
The value of the paul was, as nearly as possible, equal to fivepence-halfpenny English. The lira the original representative of the leading denomination of our own l.s.d. no longer existed in the flesh I was going to say, but rather in the metal.
Do you suppose, Signor Cardegna, that I am still interested in your comings and goings?" "The sequel to what I have told you, sir," answered Nino, bowing again, and looking very grave, "is that I once more most respectfully and honestly ask you to give me the hand of your daughter, the Signorina Hedwig von Lira."
This museum, which is at once the smallest and, with the exception of the Natural History Museum, the cheapest of the Florentine museums, for it costs but half a lira, is notable for containing the two cantorie, or singing galleries, made for the cathedral, one by Donatello and one by Luca della Robbia.
In a little room leading from the sacristy I was shown by a smiling custodian Lorenzo the Magnificent's coffin, crumbling away, and photographs of the skulls of the two brothers: Giuliano's with one of Francesco de' Pazzi's dagger wounds in it, and Lorenzo's, ghastly in its decay. I gave the man half a lira.
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