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They are not stupid, the nuns. They know the price of this, and the cost of that, just as well as you and I do. But Gigetto's father, Sor Agostino, is their steward, if that is what you wish to know. And his father was before him, and Gigetto will be after him, with his pumpkin-head. And the rest is sung by the organ, as we say when mass is over. For you know about Gigetto and Annetta." "Yes.
And he ran his fingers through his hair, and looked delighted. "You shall know all about it this evening, or to-morrow " "This evening, Sor Ercole, this evening, or I shall die. Stay, let me go to the house with you, when you give your lesson, and wait for you at the door." "Pumpkin-head! I will have nothing to do with you," said De Pretis. "Ah, I will be as quiet as you please.
And every fool that has passed my shop has put his pumpkin-head in to say, `Niccolo, wilt thou not come and see the King of France and his soldiers? and I've answered, `No: I don't want to see their faces I want to see their backs." "Are you making arms for the citizens, then, Niccolo, that they may have something better than rusty scythes and spits in case of an uproar?" "We shall see.
Jack was wearing a newly made Pumpkin-head and the Scarecrow had recently been stuffed with fresh straw. Tik-Tok's machinery was in good running order and the Tin Woodman always was well oiled. "It is quite a long journey," said Glinda, "and while I might travel quickly to the Skeezer country by means of my stork chariot the rest of you will be obliged to walk.
In a little while the steeple-crowned hat of Nicholas Koorn, the wacht-meester, rose above the battlements, followed by his iron visage, and ultimately his whole person, armed, as before, to the very teeth; while one by one a whole row of Helderbergers reared their round burly heads above the wall, and beside each pumpkin-head peered the end of a rusty musket.
"And since, as I see, you know Latin literature as well as Greek, you will not fall into the mistake of Giovanni Argiropulo, who ran full tilt against Cicero, and pronounced him all but a pumpkin-head.
"You speak of Dona Petrona's side-saddle, Antonio?" said the little wife. "She would sell it for what it cost perhaps for eight dollars. Ah, pumpkin-head, why did you not think to make all that profit? Then I could have bought slippers and a thousand things." "You are never satisfied, Cleta," he returned. "Have you not got slippers to your feet?"
Marrapit, writhing in the bitterness of crushed hope as each cat was held towards him. "Dolt and pumpkin-head! How could that wretched creature be my Rose?" How, indeed, when at that moment the Rose of Sharon in the ruined hut was lapping milk taken her by George in a lemonade bottle, her infamous captor smoking on the threshold? Precisely at three o'clock Mr. David Brunger arrived.
What proof have we of the fact? Somebody has been told that somebody else heard some other pumpkin-head say so.
By the lightning of Saul, by the sword of Vengeance, thou pumpkin-head, do you not see the vigor given to my Reform by the massacre at Amboise? Ideas never grow till they are watered with blood. The slaying of the Duc de Guise will lead to a horrible persecution, and I pray for it with all my might. Our reverses are preferable to success.
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