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It seems that Signorita Malban's beauty set his heart on fire, and he promptly produced the coin to back the enterprise, the only condition being that he was to sing the tenor roles. All this came out in the trial, you know." "The trial! What trial?" "Giovanni's. Let me think a minute.
"Signorita! signorita! tabiba!" she kept repeating, wailing, and then a torrent of Shillah and Arabic and Spanish would follow, and we were at our wits' end.
An' each time we chins with the Signorita there's them two locoes steppin' and sidle'n' around her, actin' that silly-like that me and Ally Bazan takes an' beats our heads agin' the walls so soon as we're alone just because we're that pizen mortified.
She was just about to say, "Now you may call Papa Balbino," when Giovanna gave a sudden start, and exclaimed, "Signorita! a gentleman!" And ere she had time to look round, Fitzgerald was kneeling at her feet. He seized her hand and kissed it passionately, saying, in an agony of entreaty: "O Rosabella, do say you forgive me! I am suffering the tortures of the damned."
"Well, we bucks right up an' asks o' the party at the door if the Signorita Esperanza Ulivarri that was who Ryder had told us to ask for might be concealed about the premises, an' we shows Cy Ryder's note. The party that opened the door was a Greaser, the worst looking I ever clapped eyes on looked like the kind wot 'ud steal the coppers off his dead grandmother's eyes.
"That a May-basket!" exclaimed Abby, hardly able to restrain the tears of disappointment which started to her eyes. "Si, signorita," replied the man. Her frown disappeared. It was certainly very nice to be addressed by so high-sounding a title. She wished she could get Delia to call her signorita. But no; she felt sure that Delia never would. "Pshaw! It's only a joke!" said Larry, after a moment.
I does not, neither there, nor thereafterward, ever make no joke, nor yet no alloosion about, or concerning the Signorita Esperanza Palachi in the hearin' o' Hardenberg an' Strokher.
"Lord, Lord," he whispered, "why this is the truth! ... What a vile thing this really is! ... We, also, we had this happen: we had a chambermaid, Niusha...a chambermaid... they also called her signorita Anita...a pretty little girl...and my brother lived with her...my elder brother...an officer...and when he went away, she proved pregnant and mother drove her out...well, yes drove her out...threw her out of the house, like a floor mop...Where is she now?
Then she stands up there before us, fine an' tall, all in black silk, an' puts her glass up high an' sings out "'To the Revolution! "An' we all solemn-like says, 'To the Revolution, an' crooks our elbows. When we-all comes to, about half an hour later, we're in the street outside, havin' jus' said good-by to the Signorita.
"'It's double or nothing, says Hardenberg, who is somethin' o' a card sharp, 'for either you or me, Stroke; an' if you're agreeable I'll play you a round o' jacks for the chance at the Signorita the loser to pull out o' the running for good an' all. "No, Strokher don't come in on no such game, he says. He wins her, he says, as a man, and not as no poker player.
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