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Updated: June 14, 2025
But she had insisted so much, that he had at last discovered for her, in an attic of the Rue du Pas-de-la-Mule, an old Italian master, the Signor Gismondo Pulei, a sort of unknown genius, for whom thirty francs a month were a fortune, and who conceived a sort of religious fanaticism for his pupil.
"It is beautiful!" He shrugged his shoulders. "But not equal to the view from our own Mount Washington." "Then why take so much trouble to secure it? Mount Pulei is as high, and there is a good road to its top." I laughed. "Mount Pulei or Mount Washington is not Ophir." "True!" he answered, opening his eyes in surprise at the seeming absurdity of my statement.
She could not take upon herself to overcome the shame of such a situation. She was on the verge of despair, the day when the Signor Pulei arrived radiant, exclaiming from the very threshold, "I have news!"
And at once, without surprise at the awful emotion of the girl, which he attributed solely to the interest she felt for him, him Gismondo Pulei, he went on, "I did not get them direct, but through a respectable signor with long mustaches, and a red ribbon at his buttonhole, who, having received a letter from my dear pupil, has deigned to come to my room, and read it to me."
Gilberte's marriage with a financier of colossal wealth, that elegant young man who came in a coupe with two horses. Mme. Favoral could not enter a shop without being covertly complimented upon having found such a magnificent establishment for her daughter. Loud, indeed, must have been the gossip; for its echo reached even the inattentive ears of the Signor Gismondo Pulei.
Twice already she had heard from him through the Signor Gismondo Pulei, who never tired talking of this new pupil, to whom he had already given two lessons.
Though he had always refused to write a note, he consented, for her sake, to fix the melodies that buzzed in his cracked brain; and some of them proved to be admirable. He dreamed to compose for her an opera that would transmit to the most remote generations the name of Gismondo Pulei.
But he controlled himself, and, in a more quiet tone, "Thanks to the indiscretion of Pulei," he added, "I was in hopes of seeing you, but not to have the happiness of speaking to you. I had written " He drew from his pocket a large envelope, and, handing it to Mlle. Gilberte, "Here is the letter," he continued, "which I intended for you.
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