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Updated: May 11, 2025
'I want the woman with whom I made the bargain for this vat. Quoth the other, 'You may deal with me in all assurance, for I am her husband. Then said Giannello, 'The vat appeareth to me sound enough; but meseemeth you have kept dregs or the like therein, for it is all overcrusted with I know not what that is so hard and dry that I cannot remove aught thereof with my nails; wherefore I will not take it, except I first see it clean. 'Nay, answered Peronella, 'the bargain shall not fall through for that; my husband will clean it all out. 'Ay will I, rejoined the latter, and laying down his tools, put off his coat; then, calling for a light and a scraper, he entered the vat and fell to scraping.
There is indeed something priestly in this consecration of language, in this reverent ablution of the counters of thought, those poor counters so overcrusted with the dirt of travel, so loosely interchangeable among the vulgar; the figure of the stooping devotee shows sublime in a garrulous world.
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