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There was a smile on Norman Mann's lips. "Here's health and happiness to the poor child at any rate," he said. "He pities me," thought Mae, "and I hate him." But then she didn't at all. Mae wandered off to the kitchen, as usual, that day, for another of Lisetta's stories.
He let some days pass, then, taking with him a trusty companion of his, he repaired to Madam Lisetta's house and withdrawing with her into a room apart, where none might see him, he fell on his knees before her and said, 'Madam, I pray you for God's sake pardon me that which I said to you last Sunday, whenas you bespoke me of your beauty, for that the following night I was so cruelly chastised there that I have not since been able to rise from my bed till to-day. Quoth Mistress Featherbrain, 'And who chastised you thus? 'I will tell you, replied the monk.
They spent the night with a friend of Lisetta, who rented apartments to English and Americans. Mae was fortunate, therefore, in securing an unlet bedroom that was comfortably furnished. She enjoyed listening to Lisetta's stories of Rome and the Carnival; and after a quiet night in a clean bed, awoke tolerably happy and very eager for her first sight of the bay.
Some days after, accompanied by a single trusty friend, he hied him to Monna Lisetta's house, and having withdrawn with her alone into a saloon, where they were safe from observation, he fell on his knees at her feet, and said: "Madam, for the love of God I crave your pardon of that which I said to you on Sunday, when you spoke to me of your beauty, for so grievously was I chastised therefor that very night, that 'tis but to-day that I have been able to quit my bed."
Mae had already entrusted her money to Lisetta's keeping some one hundred and fifty dollars, which she had gotten the day before from Albert to buy clothes with and with her money she had also resigned all care. She did not know therefore, until the train started, that their seats were in a third-class carriage.
Do you always have such good times as this?" "At home, yes," replied Lisetta, folding her hands and smiling. "We have many a play-day on the bay of Naples." Then she roused herself: "Good night, Signorina," she said, "keep your ears open." Mae had barely reached her room when she appreciated Lisetta's last words. She heard music in the street below.
But among others, whose ears it reached, were Monna Lisetta's brothers-in-law, who, keeping their own counsel, resolved to find this angel and make out whether he knew how to fly; to which end they kept watch for some nights.
This was Lisetta's Carnival attire, and very proud she was of it. "Why, Lisetta, what do you want, and what makes you so happy?" called Mae. "O, Signorina, the cousins are here, and others, all in mask. They fill Maria's rooms quite full. It is very gay out there, and they all want to see you, Signorina.
They took an early train out to Castellamare, and as they left the city, Mae wondered if Bero were just entering it. But she soon forgot him and every one in the blue glories of the bay. At Castellamare, Gaetano, Lisetta's husband, was awaiting them, with a malicious little donkey, tricked out gaily enough in tags of color and tinkling bells.
She blushed involuntarily as she recognized him, and at once, in that moment, there was an invisible half-acquaintance established between the two. If they should ever meet again, they would remember each other. Mae crept off to the kitchen that evening, to beg for another of Lisetta's stories, and quite forgot her walk, the officer, and Norman Mann while she listened to the
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