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Updated: May 21, 2025
"E la grande maestoso" the music rises and inflates itself most pompously; "la piccina" it sinks in quick iteration lower and lower just as the Italians in describing small things lower their hands toward the ground. The insult throws Elvira into a rage, and she resolves to forego her love and seek vengeance instead.
She stayed on the landing while Olive went into the room and lit her candle. There was no sound in the house at all, no step upon the stair. As she peered down over the banisters into the darkness below she listened intently. The rustling of her skirt sounded loud in the stillness, but there was nothing else. "He did not see us," she said. "I shall go now. Lock your door. Felice notte, piccina."
The exclamation, formerly quoted, of the countess, "Piccina!" when she first saw Genevieve by the roadside, open-mouthed at sight of the carriage and the elegantly dressed woman within it, will be understood.
See, here's the cross: and there's Pippo's shop not far behind you: you can go and fill your basket, and I must go and get mine empty. Addio, piccina." Bratti went on his way, and Tessa, stimulated to change her money into confetti before further accident, went into Pippo's shop, a little fluttered by the thought that she had let Bratti know more about her than her husband would approve.
"Pechina!" said the countess, "whom do you mean?" "Madame la comtesse, when you met little Genevieve on the road in a miserable condition, you cried out in Italian, 'Piccina! The word became a nickname, and is now corrupted all through the district into Pechina," said the abbe. "The poor girl comes to church with Madame Michaud and Madame Sibilet."
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