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Julien knew it; he only nodded his head in reply, and looked the other way, into the glory of God. Then, wishing to divert the fisherman's attention to another theme, he asked what was Carmelo singing. Sparicio at once shouted to the lad: "Ha! ... ho! Carmelo! Santu diavulu! ... Sing-a loud-a! Doct-a lik-a! Sing-a! sing!" .... "He sing-a nicee," added the boatman, with his peculiar dark smile.
Sullen Sparicio himself at last burst into vociferations of ill-humor: "Santo Antonio? Ah! santissimu e santu diavulu! ... Sacramentu paescite vegnu un asidente! malidittu lu Signuri!" All through the morning they walked and pushed, trudged and sighed and swore; and the minutes dragged by more wearily than the shuffling of their feet.
Crucifixes are used as potent fetish charms or as symbols of power passing down from chief to chief; whilst every native has a "Santu" or Christian name and is dubbed dom or dona. Fetishism is the prevailing religion throughout the province.
"Managgia Cristo co tutta a croce!" ... "Santissimu e santu diavulu!" ... But as they reached at last the first of the broad bright lakes, the heat lifted, the breeze leaped up, the loose sail flapped and filled; and, bending graciously as a skater, the old San Marco began to shoot in a straight line over the blue flood.
She doesn't get it from me." "Would mademoiselle understand, for instance, these lines from one of our Corsican songs in which a shepherd says to his shepherdess: "S'entrassi 'ndru paradisu santu, santu, E nun truvassi a tia, mi n'escriria." Serenata di Zicavo. Miss Lydia did understand.
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