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"I hope you were satisfied with your humble servant." "Your musical powers did not surprise me, for those I knew already; but those transports of dramatic passion, your powerful acting, so sure of itself, did certainly astonish me." "It comes from having suffered much," replied Luigia; "suffering is a great teacher." "Suffered? Yes, I know you did, in Italy.
Four female statues standing on globes upheld seven long wax-lights; the instrumental musicians, about forty, were arranged at the foot of these statues; sala was lighted principally by six glass chandeliers; much female beauty in the room; dresses very various. "Signora Luigia Tardi sang with much judgment and was received with great applause.
But as no one artist wanted three models, the girls had to separate, and, out of the mother's vigilance, the second one, Orsolo, went to the atelier of a wicked and handsome fellow, and met with the usual romance of her class. The oldest girl, Luigia, married a man-model, and their nuptials must have been of a most prosaic character.
Do you remember that little Prussian engraver about whom I sent you to Berlin?" "The one who forged those Vienna bank bills in that wonderful way?" "Yes. I just missed arresting him near Saint-Sulpice. But I followed him into the church, where I heard your Signora Luigia." "Ah!" said Jacqueline, "she has made up her mind at last, and has left that imbecile of a sculptor."
Whether, from Haydn's point of view, he did well or not is open to question; for a fiddler named Polzelli had come to Esterház, and Haydn could find nothing better to do than flirt with his wife Luigia. He did more than flirt he went a trifle further, and the lady took full advantage of his infatuation.
By abandoning such a nature, more terrible than seductive, to itself, Monsieur de l'Estorade will, I think, agree that I was likely to cause some misfortune. I consented, therefore, that Signora Luigia should accompany me to Paris. Since then she has managed my household with discretion and economy.
First there were the portraits of her mother, of her stepfather, Mr. Greville, and of the little half-brothers and sisters Bertram, Nina, Vincent, and Luigia taken by an Italian photographer in wonderfully artistic poses, and with classic backgrounds of pillars and palm trees.
"Probably some foolish fancy, such as that of leaving my house suddenly, because your mistaken sense of honor made you think yourself in my way." "Not mistaken," she replied. "I know what was in your thoughts. If only on account of what you had done for me, I knew I could never aspire to your esteem." "But, my dear Luigia, I call such ideas absurd. Have I ever shown you any want of consideration?
Though far from penetrating the many mysteries that surrounded Jacqueline Collin, Sallenauve knew Madame de Saint-Esteve to be a woman of doubtful character and a matrimonial agent, having at times heard Bixiou tell tales of her. "But that woman," he said, "has a shocking notoriety in Paris. She is an adventuress of the worst kind." "I suspected it," said Luigia. "But what of that?"
The babe Giuseppe was born among very poor, ignorant working people, though his father's house was one of the best known and most frequented among the cluster of cottages. His parents Carlo Verdi and Luigia his wife, kept a small inn at Le Roncole and also a little shop, where they sold sugar, coffee, matches, spirits, tobacco and clay pipes.
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