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Updated: May 15, 2025
Naturally most of the talk was about my family, my rich family and all I would do when I had money. I would make her father, brothers, sisters, and above all herself, happy. Lise, unlike Mattia, was delighted. She quite believed that if one had money one ought to be very happy, because, would not her father have been happy if he had only had the money to pay his debts?
During the time that they were all trying to persuade me to stay at Varses, Mattia became very preoccupied and thoughtful. I questioned him, but he always answered that nothing was the matter. It was not until I told him that we were starting off on our tramps in three days' time, that he admitted the cause of his sadness. "Oh, I thought that you would stay and that you would leave me," he said.
Then Mattia seized the stockings with one hand and pulled me down the alley with the other. "Walk quick, but don't run," he whispered. He told me a moment later that a man who had hurried past him on the pavement was saying, "Where's that thief? I'll get him!" We went out by the other end of the alley. "If it had not been for the fog we should have been arrested as thieves," said Mattia.
Arthur brings me a copy of the Times and points to a correspondence from Vienna which states that Mattia, the great musician, has completed his series of concerts, and that, in spite of his tremendous success in Vienna, he is returning to England to keep an engagement which cannot be broken.
I could hear Mattia, who occupied the berth above mine, turn over restlessly also. He could not sleep any more than I. Hours passed. As it grew later a vague fear oppressed me. I felt uneasy, but I could not understand why it was that I felt so. Of what was I afraid? Not of sleeping in a caravan even in this vile part of London!
Don't you think sooner or later the police will get on to Driscoll, seeing how cheap he's selling the things? Then what'll happen?" "Oh, Mattia...." "If you will keep your eyes shut I must keep mine open. We shall both be arrested and we haven't done anything, but how can we prove that? Aren't we eating the food that is paid for by the money that he gets for these things?"
A cow in my cowshed!" cried Mother Barberin. Mattia and I burst out laughing. "It's a surprise," I cried, "and a better one than the Jerusalem artichokes." She looked at me in a dazed, astonished manner. "Yes, it's a present for you. I did not come back with empty hands to the mamma who was so good to the little lost boy. This is to replace Rousette.
All down the line to the right he could hear French machine guns pouring their fire into the approaching horsemen. Those who were not killed or who had not fallen wounded from their horses were turned back. "Mattia, in his excitement, crawled along one side of the communicating trench toward the machine-gun emplacement.
He knew there was one man, and perhaps two, in that falling machine, and that he was watching them falling to what would probably be death. "'It is for France, he said to himself. 'If they are Boches they must die. However, Mattia did not get the picture of that scene out of his mind for a long time. Later on he became used to it and did not even marvel.
Mattia played almost as well as Vitalis. "Who taught you the violin?" I asked, clapping my hands. "No one, I studied alone." "Hasn't any one explained to you anything about music?" "No, I play just what I hear." "I'll teach you, I will." "You know everything, then?" "Well so I ought to, if I'm the director." I wanted to show Mattia that I also was a musician.
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