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Updated: June 6, 2025
She made me sit down, chucked me under the chin with her lean fingers, called me "poverino," and leered at me so roguishly with her red eyes that one corner of her mouth twitched half-way up her cheek as she at last left the room with a low courtesy. I sat down at the table, and a young, pretty girl came in to wait on me.
They would kill a man rather than wait an hour one little hour! The girl is dead, your majesty and Giovanni, poor lad! will not leave her; he has his two arms round her tight Holy Virgin! think of it! and she a cholera corpse and do what we can, he will not be parted from her, and they seek her body for the burial. And if we force him away, poverino, he will lose his head for certain.
"Poverino!" said the gondolier softly, while Marina crooned over him an Ave Maria, and the gondola glided noiselessly to its cadence. "Piero," she said, looking up with eyes full of tears, "sometimes I think I cannot bear it! He needs thy prayers as well as mine wilt thou not ask our Lady of San Donato to be kinder to him?
The crowd who were filling the air with shouts of "Morte!" "Abbasso l'Austria!" "Morte agli Austriaci!" crowded round the fallen trooper, while the officer tried to push forward towards the spot. But when he got within earshot, and could see also what was taking place, he saw the people immediately round the fallen man busily disengaging him from his horse! "O poverino! Ti sei fatto male? Orsu!
I leaned out of the window, but could see nothing, and I was wondering what the noise could mean, when an excited waiter threw open the door of the smoking-room and cried, breathlessly: "Carmelo Neri, signor! Carmelo Neri! They have him, poverino! they have him at last!" Though almost as strongly interested in this news as the waiter himself, I did not permit my interest to become manifest.
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