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I recouped him for the expense by holding a bank at faro, at which I was dexterous enough to lose forty crowns to the family, without having the slightest partiality to Mariuccia who won like the rest.
Mariuccia, who had brought the cat and had her pocket full of roasted chestnuts, sat outside on a chair until he was ready for her; and I am sure that if she had spent her life in the profession of adorning players she could not have used her fingers more deftly in the arrangement of the collar and sword.
"I am very glad to hear it. Have you any children?" "Four; and the eldest, who is nine years old, is very like you." "Do you love her?" "I adore her, but I love the other three as well." As I wanted to go to breakfast with Armelline I begged Margarita to keep Mariuccia company till my return.
So Mariuccia was turned out into the passage while he changed his dress. De Pretis came back a moment later and tried to help him, but he was so much overcome that he could only shed tears and give a last word of advice for the next act. "You must not sing it too loud, Nino mio," he said. "Diavolo!" said Nino. "I should think not!"
I felt very tired, and having nothing to keep me after seeing Mariuccia, I begged the company to excuse me, and after wishing them a good appetite I left them. I walked out next morning at an early hour.
On Ash Wednesday he sent his man to ask me to sup with him and the marchioness, who was his mistress, and I sent word that I would not fail to come; but he waited for me in vain. Pride is the daughter of folly, and always keeps its mother's nature. After the opera I went to Momolo's, where I found Mariuccia, her father, her mother, and her future husband. They were anxiously expecting me.
Gold does not spell happiness, and mirth can only be found in hearts devoid of care. Let us say no more about it, but be happy." Costa placed a basket containing ten packets of sweets, upon the table. "I will distribute them," said I, "when everybody is here." On this, Momolo's second daughter told me that Mariuccia and her mother were not coming, but that they would send them the sweets.
I can always tell when it is a tramontana wind before I open my window, for Mariuccia makes such a clattering with the coffee-pot in the kitchen, and the goldfinch in the sitting-room sings very loud; which he never does if it is cloudy. Nino, then, went off to Maestro Ercole's house for his singing, and this is what happened there.
It was in the afternoon, towards sunset, and I was sitting in the old green arm-chair watching the goldfinch in his cage, and thinking sadly of the poor dear baroness, and of my boy, and of many things. The bell rang and Mariuccia brought me a card in her thick fingers which were black from peeling potatoes, so that the mark of her thumb came off on the white pasteboard.
As for the cowl in the last act, De Pretis has a brother who is a monk, and between them they put together a very decent friar's costume; and Mariuccia had a good piece of rope which Nino used for a girdle. "What does it matter?" he said, with much good sense.
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