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'And I suppose since he is to act as guide he must know the region? her father mildly suggested. 'Oh, no, that's immaterial; we can always ask our way. Mr. Wilder grunted, but offered no further suggestion. 'We pay four lire a day and furnish his meals, she added munificently. 'And we shall begin with the castle on Monte Baldo; then when we get very proficient we'll climb Monte Maggiore.
In the time of Henry II. we find the King granting to the Priory of St Denys, founded in 1124 by Henry I., a Priory of Austin Canons, his "chapels" of St Michael, the Holy Rood, St Laurence and All Saints, that is all the churches save St John's already granted to the Abbey of St Mary of Lire, in Southampton.
"And the banker said that although, if I had actually spent fifty thousand lire more than I possessed, he would have done his best to see how he could extricate me from the trouble, he certainly would not help me to get fifty thousand for the express purpose of throwing them away." "I thought the banker would say that," remarked the other lady, caressing the cat.
The season was still young and the Henry D. Greggs looked like money not Italian money, which is reckoned in lire, but American money, which mounts grandly to dollars. The postcard men in the Piazza delle Terme sped after their motor taxi. The swarthy brigand, with his wooden box of tawdry souvenirs, marked them as they rode past.
"Yes, Excellency." "But if I give you money, you will not let people rob you? If I give you a hundred lire?" The boy drew back, stared, as if frightened. "A hundred lire ?" he said. "Yes," said Peter. The boy looked at his sister. "Pardon, Nobility," he said. "With your condescension, does it cost a hundred lire to go to Turin by train?" "Oh, no. I think it costs eight or ten."
And he was so happy, that he hardly experienced any surprise or distress when he felt in his pockets and found only one of the two little heaps into which he had divided his little treasure, in order to be the more sure of not losing the whole of it. He had been robbed; he had only a few lire left; but what mattered that to him, when he was near his mother?
In the same way as others might offer a cup of tea, he was wont to offer cups of broth to the old cardinals his friends and favourites, quite an invigorating little treat which these old bachelors much enjoyed. And, O ye orgies of Alexander VI, ye banquets and /galas/ of Julius II and Leo X, only eight /lire/ a day six shillings and fourpence were allowed to defray the cost of Leo XIII's table!
As soon as this was noticed they were seized, taken before a judge, and sentenced to pay six hundred and fifty lire. They had not that much money between them, and so for a short time were placed under lock and key. Fortunately news of the boys' arrest came to a nobleman of the city who was much interested in art and who had already heard of Michael Angelo's ability.
And in America you get good pay. A man can earn eight lire a day there, they tell me." "I have not seen your daughter yet," Artois said, abruptly. "No, signore, she is not well to-day. And the Signor Pretore frightened her. She will stay in the house to-day." "But I should like to see her for a moment." "Signore, I am very sorry, but "
"It means a rotten plot neither more nor less to ruin Prince Sansevero, concocted by a man whom the prince believed to be his friend! The Duke Scorpa has just died, which ends the affair for him, but I have the whole chain of evidence that clears the prince. The picture was taken in exchange for a promissory note of the prince's, for one hundred thousand lire.
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