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Updated: May 19, 2025
'That was not your way of opening mine, dear! laughed Ortensia. 'I am afraid you needed no secret at all to do that. Again he touched the mandoline, but it was not mere tinkling music now, making believe that it came all the way down the long street from the dismal Tor di Nona by the bridge.
Happily, the musicians errant still strum their mandoline as you dine. The old trattoria in the Toledo is as good as ever, as bright, as comfortable. I have found my old corner in one of the little rooms, and something of the old gusto for zuppa di vongole. The homely wine of Posillipo smacks as in days gone by, and is commended to one's lips by a song of the South. . . .
The grand piano was open, the mandoline lay on a side-table, looking as though it had been recently used; there were fresh flowers and ferns in all the tall Venetian glass vases. I seated myself and remarked on the beauty of the house and its surroundings. "I remember it very well," I added, quietly. "You remember it!" exclaimed Ferrari, quickly, as though surprised. "Certainly.
A man felt as if he had fallen in love with Cleopatra, or as if he were asking for a great actress at the stage door. Indeed, some theatrical spangles seemed to cling about Miss Hunt; she played the guitar and the mandoline; she always wanted charades; and with that great rending of the sky by sun and storm, she felt a girlish melodrama swell again within her.
Poppy's canary in the window, in a cage hung with yellow gauze. Poppy's mandoline in an easy chair by itself. Poppy's hat on the grand piano, tumbling head over heels among a litter of coffee cups. On the tea-table a pair of shoes that could have belonged to nobody but Poppy, they were so diminutive. In the waste paper basket a bouquet that must have been Poppy's too, it was so enormous.
But by this time all this was past and gone; only the love of song would never die out in the dwelling of the man who had been well-pleased to hear himself called by his fellows "Schopper the Singer." Ah! how marvellous well did their voices sound, Ann's and my brother's, when they sang German songs to the lute or the mandoline, or perchance Italian airs, as they might choose.
She could go home any time afterwards; for their own tea-hour was not till half past six. "I'll walk along with you a little way, Lina, and think it over." It was true Mrs. Parlin did not approve of Mandoline or any of her family; but Dotty thought she would forget that, just for once. "O, dear!
An ancient church with bleached stone saints under flowery canopies, a guttering candle before a tinsel shrine, and the hoarse babel of the streets whips that cracked and spluttered like squibs, a swarming coloured stream of men and maids, once the twang of a chance mandoline.
In the beer hall a tinkly mandoline orchestra was playing, and a woman without a voice sang a popular song one thought of the women on the Rieka River a tired girl dressed in faded tights did a few easy contortions between the tables, and in a bored manner collected her meed of halfpence we thought of the cheery idiot of Scutari.
Morgan had an enchanted couple of hours, handling the books, listening to Margaret's playing, and admiring Diana's skill with the mandoline, which her many-sided caprice had taken up of late. He joined them in their evening meal for, according to their rural regime, they dined at two and supped about nine.
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