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"There's more news of the English Milor and his family," said the host, emphatically. "An English lord.-What English lord?" "Milor Popkin." "Lord Popkin? I never heard of such a title!" "O Sicuro a great nobleman that passed through here lately with his Milady and daughters a magnifico one of the grand councillors of London un almanno." "Almanno almanno? tut! he means alderman."
"Sicuro, aldermanno Popkin, and the principezza Popkin, and the signorina Popkin!" said mine host, triumphantly. He would now have entered into a full detail, but was thwarted by the Englishman, who seemed determined not to credit or indulge him in his stories.
An Italian tongue, however, is not easily checked: that of mine host continued to run on with increasing volubility as he conveyed the fragments of the repast out of the room, and the last that could be distinguished of his voice, as it died away along the corridor, was the constant recurrence of the favorite word Popkin Popkin Popkin pop pop pop.
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