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Updated: June 4, 2025
But never was I even engaged, and when permission came from Madrid for the marriage of my sister Rafaella with Luis Argüello he was an officer and could not marry without a special license from the King, and through some strange oversight he was six long years getting it ; well, I lived with them and took care of the children until Rafaella Ay yi! what a good wife she made him, for he 'toed the mark, as the Americans say ; well, she died, and one of those days he married another; for will not men be men?
"He has known bereavement," said she; "I pity him with all my heart." Her eyes filled with tears. She repeated the words, whose meaning was now clear to her, "A to Rafaella." Then she knelt down softly before the mournful inscription. I saw her bow her head. Jeanne was praying.
The portrait of our Rafaella, Cristoforo, the portrait we have so long desired, is at last to be given to us!" I heard a chair move, and a slow footstep. Cristoforo appeared, with white hair and black moustache, his tall figure buttoned up in an old-fashioned frockcoat, the petrified, mummified remains of a once handsome man. He walked up to me, took both my hands and shook them ceremoniously.
"He has known bereavement," said she; "I pity him with all my heart." Her eyes filled with tears. She repeated the words, whose meaning was now clear to her, "A to Rafaella." Then she knelt down softly before the mournful inscription. I saw her bow her head. Jeanne was praying.
A day came when Rafaella Dannegianti was carried off by her parents, who shuddered at the thought of her stooping to a painter, even though he were a genius." "So she died?" "A year later. He never got over it. Even while I speak to you, he in his loneliness is pondering and weeping over these very lines which you have just read without a suspicion of the depth of their bitterness."
They knelt before the altar, the Commandante, Dona Ignacia, Luis, Santiago, Rafaella Sal and Elena Castro just behind; the rest of the party, their bright garments shimmering vaguely in the gloom, as they listened; and enough fervent prayers went up to insure the health and safety of the departing guests for all their lives.
It means: "To thee, Rafaella Dannegianti who, aged twenty years and few months having fully experienced the sorrows and illusions of this world on January 6 like an angel longing for its heavenly home didst wing thy way to God in peace and happiness the clergy of Desioand the laborers and artificers of the noble house of Dannegianti tender these last solemn offices."
It means: "To thee, Rafaella Dannegianti who, aged twenty years and few months having fully experienced the sorrows and illusions of this world on January 6 like an angel longing for its heavenly home didst wing thy way to God in peace and happiness the clergy of Desioand the laborers and artificers of the noble house of Dannegianti tender these last solemn offices."
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