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Updated: June 23, 2025
But if any thing lurks there that mocks Pipa's mirth, it is not visible to Pipa's outward eye, so she continues addressing herself to Enrica, who is utterly bewildered by her strange ways. Pipa cannot bear to think that Enrica never dressed for her betrothed. "Poverina!" she says to her, "not dress not dress! What degradation!
La Mamma would not consent, and we all begged and prayed her not to have him, but Fausta was obstinate, and married him. Poverina! she has had one trouble after another, and will have to the end. As soon as I had passed my fourteenth birthday I was apprenticed to Madama. Flavia was one of her best workwomen then, as she has been ever since.
"And does your mother let him beat you, poverina? You said you were afraid of being beaten." "Ah, my mother herself scolds me: she loves my young sister better, and thinks I don't do work enough. And the men in the Mercato laugh at me and make fun of me. Nobody ever kissed me and spoke to me as you do; just as I talk to my little black-faced kid, because I'm very fond of it."
Fausta and Flavia and little Teresa said the same, but it hurt them less, and they did not cry. And then little Teresa spoke up, she was always as wise as a little angel: "Mamma," says she, "the baby must have her supper, mustn't she?" "Poverina! what would you have?" says La Mamma. "Yes, the poor baby must have her supper, indeed.
At the church door she collapsed from pain. The recluse placed her on his chair and ran to the cistern to get a glass of water. The Italian maid, her eyes bulging with fright, leaned over the poor woman, petting her: "Poverina! Poverina!... Coraggio!"
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