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Updated: May 6, 2025
"O Maria, O Maria," was the artless supplication; "I vow to give to thee the ring my mother bought for me four years ago, and the coral necklace, tanto bello!" And then, with simple fervour, the Madonna was assured that, would she but save il poverino, a candle should be burned to her every Saturday, "ogni Sabbato, Maria, Maria!"
The boy looked away; and now it was his turn to hang his head, and to let his toes work nervously in the dust. "Haven't you sold any?" she exclaimed, drawing her conclusions. "No, Excellency. The people would not buy," he owned, in a dull voice, keeping his eyes down. "Poverino," she murmured. "Where are you going to sleep to-night?" "In a house, Excellency," said he.
She pursued me into every corner of the room, but when at last I dropped excuses and told her that my real reason for not dancing was that it would hurt my health, she waived her claims at once with an Ah, poverino! Some time after midnight we felt that we had had enough of divertimento. Francesco helped us to slip out unobserved.
The rogue did nothing but eat maccaroni, and swallow the lachryma christi, which the Dalmatian count had on freight." "Poverino! His gondola has been run down by an Ancona-man, who passed over the boat as if it were a senator stepping on a fly." "So much for little fish coming into deep water."
She pursued me into every corner of the room, but when at last I dropped excuses and told her that my real reason for not dancing was that it would hurt my health, she waived her claims at once with an Ah, poverino! Some time after midnight we felt that we had had enough of divertimento. Francesco helped us to slip out unobserved.
He was never the one to want us to go to bed hungry as well as with a sore heart." But even while he thought the wicked thoughts the love for Babbo came into his heart again. He burst out crying and sobbing, and cried out, "Mamma, mamma, I don't want any supper to-night; I don't! I don't!" Poverino! he was growing and strong, and so hungry.
"'If death awaited me on leaving the house, I would go the more quickly, he replied. "'Poverino! cried the stranger, as he disappeared. "To talk of danger to a man in love is to sell him pleasure. Sarrasine's valet had never seen his master so painstaking in the matter of dress.
He has just energy to whine "Poverino Signorina" and it matters little whether his extended hand is filled with centismi or not; according as it may be, he calls upon the "Sanctissmi Virgina" to bless or curse you and sinks away into dreamy content till the next stranger approaches.
Nino is at liberty again, and says he will sing to-night to show them he is not a clay doll, to be broken by a little knocking about. Ah, what a glorious boy Nino is!" "But where is he!" I asked, when I could find voice to speak, for I was all trembling. "He is gone for a good walk, to freshen his nerves, poverino. I wonder he has any strength left.
The general shout of laughter changed to almost tragical gravity when they saw that Genovese was in utter earnest. La Tinti understood that her companion was in love with her, and had spoken the truth on the stage, the land of falsehood. "Poverino!" she murmured, stroking the Prince's hand under the table.
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