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"Does the Prince of Zelt-Neuminster take in boarders?" she inquired, her nose in the air. "Not exactly," said John. "But the Parroco of Sant' Alessina does. I board at the presbytery." "Oh," said Lady Blanchemain, beginning to see light, while her eyebrows went up, went down. "You board at the presbytery?" "For six francs fifty a day wine included," chuckled John.
He did not see eye to eye with Torquemada on matters such as these. Don Francesco disliked all measures of violence, Camorra or freemasonry, Vatican or Quirinal disliked them so much that he would have hated them had he been built, like the PARROCO, on hating lines.
The Mother of God was not a fickle earthly creature, to change Her mind from one day to the next. With arguments such as these they endeavoured to controvert the PARROCO who, being a fighter to the death, a resourceful ascetic of unbending will, never admitted defeat. He bethought him of other shifts.
The parroco sent them word that they should come at once to his house per pacificarli. They went. There is a girl, living with her sister, whose husband has a bad reputation. The parroco ordered her to leave found another home for her. She left. There is a lad who made some blasphemous remarks in the street on the day of the Madonna's procession. The parroco ordered him to do penance. He did it.
He was tremendously fond of buttered tea-cakes so the Duchess said; a man who, in the words of Madame Steynlin, "really appreciated good music" and who, as the PARROCO never ceased to declare, could be relied on to give a handsome contribution towards the funds for supporting the poor and repairing a decrepit parish organ.
Sirocco, you observe. . . ." The terrace, meanwhile, had become crowded. Already the evening sun was slightly obscured behind a brown haze. Ashes were traveling fast. They began to fall, softly. What was to be done? Everybody, mindful of the previous experience, was in favour of a second procession to take place immediately. The PARROCO held the same opinion.
And Torquemada, thinking over the day's proceedings, was driven to confess that he was indebted for the suggestion to the fertile brain of the Nicaraguan Representative; in other words that he, the parroco, was praised for what was really the Commissioner's idea. And it is evident that if Mr.
Even the PARROCO could not help laughing as Keith, with irresistible good nature, seized him by the arm and thrust a MARRON GLACE between his lips. An ideal host! The "Falernian system" was in abeyance that day.
Whereupon the parroco insisted with heat that there could be no true philosophy outside the Church. The Contessa laughed and turned upon the young man a flashing and formidable eye. 'Let the Church add a little patriotism to her philosophy, Father, she will find it better appreciated. Don Teodoro straightened to the blow. 'I am a Roman, Eccellenza you also Scusi!
"Nobody but our PARROCO could keep his hands off that girl," blithely remarked the priest. Another little twinge. . . . Mr. Heard was not prone to wax enthusiastic over the delights of architecture or natural scenery. He called himself unexpansive and unromantic; he confessed to small understanding, small veneration, for artistic effects.
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