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The Paraguayan women are active and industrious, but the men elevate the far niente into an institution. The people rise early to enjoy the freshness of the morning, but at noon they make up for their loss of sleep by indulging in a three hours' siesta in the heat of the day.
The idle forgetfulness of the more serious duties and the deep miseries of life in the enjoyment of a dolce far niente recalls Schubert and the "Fantasia," Op. 78, and other works of his. The earlier work is distinguished by a brisk freshness; the later one by a feverish restlessness and faint plaintiveness.
'Non posso neyarti niente'. It would take me an age to tell you the many causes which have conspired against this much-injured Queen! I fear none who are near her person will escape the threatening storm that hovers over our heads.
Never till you have enjoyed it, never till you have felt its enervating but delicious charm, believe that you can comprehend all the meaning of the dolce far niente; and when that luxury has been known, when you have breathed the atmosphere of fairy land, then you will no longer wonder why the heart ripens with so sudden and wild a power beneath the rosy skies and amidst the glorious foliage of the South.
"Gaspare! That servant who came to the Guiseppone? Oh, no doubt he has rowed the ladies over and will return to the boat?" "No, I think not. I think the Signora will bring him to the Carmine." "Why?" said the Marchesino, sharply. "Why not? He is a strong fellow, and might be useful in a crowd." "Are we not strong? Are we not useful?" "My dear Doro, what's the matter?" "Niente niente!"
She is a mad woman, or rather an idiot, what you Normans would call a Niente . It is a miserable story, but a very singular pathological case at the same time. Shall I tell you?"
"Le Meunier d'Angibault," she tells us, was the result of a walk, a meeting, a day of leisure, an hour of far niente, followed by Reverie, that play of the imagination which, clothes with beauty and perfects, and interprets, the isolated and small events and facts of life. There are books of hers in early life that are simply self-revelations outpourings of her indignations.
The Piazza is crowded with carriages during all these days, and a hackman will look at nothing under a scudo for the smallest distance, and, to your remonstrances, he shrugs his shoulders and says, "Eh, signore, bisogna vivere; adesso e la nostra settimana, e poi niente. Next week I will take you anywhere for two pauls, now for fifteen."
Now I want to tell you something something that happened to-night." Gaspare started, looked up quickly, darted at his Padrona a searching glance of inquiry. "What is it?" she said. "Niente!" He kept his eyes on her, staring with a tremendous directness that was essentially southern. And she returned his gaze. "I was with Ruffo this evening.
This sunny, summer life was of the dolce far niente sort, given up to idle pleasure, and quite out of the way of the tragic happenings of romance. Yet a mystery had managed to creep into this Arcadian realm, a thing not at first tangible, but getting to be an acknowledged first-class secret as the days went by.
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