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He had never yet visited the northern part of the lake, there where it was so dark, and mysterious, and where as old Nonna used to relate evil spirits dwelt, and a giant covered with pumice-stone was compelled by a curse to live. Perhaps, if he could only get to the other shore, he might see a ghost! That was a tempting prospect!
Above the arches of the roof he heard a loud, grunting laugh, and a voice, that sounded like the hoarse howl of a dog, cried several times: "Here we have the Wendelin brood! At last I have the Greylock!" Then George remembered all that he had overheard Pepe and Nonna relate, and all that he had coaxed out of them by his questions.
Old Nonna had shed many tears during good Pepe's speech, and he was trying to comfort her when George suddenly sat up, rubbed his eyes with the back of his hands, stretched himself, and then, agile as a brook trout, sprang out of bed.
The duchess jumped up, cast one glance into the glass, saw the grey lock distinctly, and then forgetting that she was a princess and Nonna but a humble servant, threw her arms about her and kissed her on the mouth, above which grew so luxuriant a moustache that many a page would gladly have exchanged his young upper lip for her older one.
There was the pious Nonna, for instance, the mother of the great St. Gregory Nazianzen, who converted her husband so effectually that he became a bishop, and died at the age of ninety." "What became of her?" inquired Augustina hastily. The priest hesitated. "It is a very curious case and, I understand, much disputed. Some people suppose that St.
"Look at those, woman," he said ominously, deliberately, but she could not or would not; and, before she could collect her wits, what must need old Nonna do but make bad worse, and, running, thrust herself in between, and wag her hand under the doctor's nose. "Eh, eh, eh, what a bother about nothing!" says this amiable old fool.
Pepe kept his own counsel and confided to no one save old Nonna what he knew. She, too, had learned to be discreet and consequently did not repeat his confidences even to the duchess, who had enough to bear without that additional burden. How pale her darling seemed to her when she saw him in the glass!
When they drew him out from under the blocks and stones he was unconscious, and the Major-domo, who had been attracted by the cries of George's companions, carried him into the prince's room, laid him on the bed, and watched by him until the physician was called. The old nurse, Nonna, aided the Majordomo, and these two faithful souls confided their anxiety to one another.
"When Vanna's a nun the river will be dry," said Vanna from between her elbows. "When Vanna's a nun the river, on the contrary, will be in flood." This from Baldassare. "Hey! what's this?" Caterina cried; and Nonna pinched her arm. "Adige will go crying that she comes no more to dip her arms," said the old man, with the utmost gravity and a broad grin.
When they drew him out from under the blocks and stones he was unconscious, and the Major-domo, who had been attracted by the cries of George's companions, carried him into the prince's room, laid him on the bed, and watched by him until the physician was called. The old nurse, Nonna, aided the Majordomo, and these two faithful souls confided their anxiety to one another.
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