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He put a roll of bank-notes on the package, and made a motion as if he wished to put the latter in his pocket. "Do you want to buy the whole package?" asked Salvani, breathlessly. "Yes," nodded the negro. The impresario looked doubtingly at him, and said: "But that is eleven boxes on the first tier, each of which costs fifty lire " "Yes."
He knew a man once who had gone to America to live and had made a fortune there but yes, a large fortune ten thousand lire in four years. Perhaps the signorina knew him Giuseppe Motta; he lived in Buenos Aires. And what did it look like America? How was it different from Italy? Constance described the sky-scrapers in New York. His wonder was intense. A building twenty stories high! Dio mio!
The crowns are really only half-crowns, but they are gold or silver-gilt, and are fastened into the wood of the picture. All round the Madonna's nimbus is a raised band of gold set with twelve diamond stars, valued at 14,000 lire.
His verdict was it would be hopeless to try to make a singer out of me. As it was, I might possibly earn a few lire a night with my voice, but according to his idea I had far better stick to my father's trade, in which I could at least earn forty cents a day. "But my young friend would not give up so easily. He begged Vergine to hear me again.
More than once any northerner would have anticipated bloodshed. They struggled and beat the palms of their hands with outstretched fingers. It took them half an hour to quarrel over the last two francs. And finally it was settled that the noble prince and millionaire, then leaning against the wall smoking cigarettes, was to pay twenty-two lire and to give a pourboire.
When a trained organization has been committed to the attack, the gaining of fire superiority depends upon the way in which fire direction and fire control are exercised. The captain directs the fire of the company. When he desires the fire to be opened he gives the necessary commands or signals, including the range at which the sights lire to be set.
I want someone to sort them out, catalogue, and arrange them for me. Would you care to do it?" "Yes, indeed." "That's all right then," he said hastily. "I'll get a carpenter in at once to put up some more shelves ready for them. And I think you had better stay on in the villa, if you don't mind. It will be more convenient. The salary will be two hundred lire a month, paid in advance."
I counted on a gift of a hundred lire from the railway company this month, and this morning I have learned that I shall receive nothing!"
"For seven years you have received fifty American dollars every month, and out of it you do not spend as many copper centesimi. I am certain that you have twenty thousand lire tucked away in your stocking; a fortune!" "I buy the blacking for the signore's boots," gravely. Hillard saw the twinkle in the black eyes. "I have never," he said truthfully, "asked you to black my boots."
One of them he deposited in the savings-bank, another he invested in a money order which was sent by Strollo to Nicoletta for the mother, and the last he kept for himself. It was astounding how fast one really could make money if one was industrious. Forty dollars a month, sometimes! That made nearly seventy lire to send to Nicoletta.
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