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"Certainly I think her voice is perhaps the finest I ever heard in my life; and she is no doubt a great actress a very great actress; but she is not simpatica to me. I don't know why, but somehow or other I don't like her." "What can you have got into your head, tesoro mio? You know nothing of her; you have nothing to do with her except to see and hear her on the stage." "No; thank heaven!
"Muy simpatica," had said the old Gipsy at the Generalife in Granada when I had spoken bolee with him. Lermontoff shook hands with me. His was as hard as leather, calloused as a sailor's or a miner's, and so contradicted his balanced head, intellectual face, and general air of knowledge and world experience that I said: "You have the horniest palm in Tahiti." "I am a planter," he replied.
"Simpatica!" the responsive people cried with glowing faces. "Angiola! Tanto Simpatica!" The Lady Fiorenza standing where she could see the face of her child gave thanks for the vision, with joyful tears. "This hast thou granted her, Madonna mia Beatissima, for a wedding gift!"
It is very simpatica, and I must say I was greatly surprised, after all that has been written in Russian newspapers about the cruelties and other iniquities perpetrated by this Khivan potentate, to find the original such a cheery sort of fellow. His countenance was of a very different type from his treasurer's.
The words, "Brunetta mia simpatica, ti amo sempre più," sung after this fashion to Eustace's handsome partner, who puffed delicate whiffs from a Russian cigarette, and smiled her thanks, had a peculiar appropriateness. All the ladies, it may be observed in passing, had by this time lit their cigarettes.
A sudden remembrance seemed to come to him. Evidently a new thought had started into his active mind, for his face suddenly changed, and became serious, even sentimental. "What is it?" asked Artois. "To-day, just now in the sea, I have seen a girl Madonna! Emilio, she had a little nose that was perfect perfect. How she was simpatica! What a beautiful girl!"
"Oh, I have no private opinion on that part of the question. I am not like that modern philosopher who fancied he had solved the whole problem by spelling God with a small g. But don't you think that we have gone quite far enough in our exchange of confidence for a first meeting? You are what the Italians call simpatica that is, more than merely sympathetic.
She never took her eyes from me. As to papa she never glanced at him. Poor papa! He was angry. She had her mother with her, I think a Signora, tall, flat, ugly, but she was simpatica, too. She had nice eyes, and when I did the seal she could not help laughing, though I think she was rather sad." "What sort of boat were they in?" Artois asked, with sudden interest.
A most graceful walk. In short, a persona tutta simpatica. As for the head magnificent hair, blonde, which for choice I would always prefer the true Titian sun-tinged auburn, a telling eye, finely formed nose, and mouth of inexpressible sweetness!" "Per Bacco, Signor Ercole, a Phoenix indeed! A Diva davvero!" said the Marchese.
'I make musica, signorina, wif wif how do you say, monk, monka? His name Vittorio Emanuele. Ver' nice monk simpatica affezionata. 'You've never been an actor? 'An actor? No, signorina. 'You should try it; I fancy you might have some talent in that direction. 'Si, signorina. Sank you.
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