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Updated: October 5, 2025
Presently he saw her stop irresolutely, open a little velvet bag that hung from her waist and throw a shower of soldi among the children. They swooped upon it, fighting and shrieking. Mrs. Burgoyne looked at them half smiling, half repentant, shook her head and walked on. 'Eleanor you coward! said Manisty, throwing himself back in his chair with a silent laugh.
The street-boys also often perform the duties of the gransieri, who draw your gondola to shore, and keep it firm with a hook. To this order of beggar I usually gave; but one day at the railway station I had no soldi, and as I did not wish to render my friend discontented with future alms by giving silver, I deliberately apologized, praying him to excuse me, and promising him for another time.
"Her daughter is going to marry a certain Conte di San Miniato a great signore of those without soldi." The sailor coiled the plaited sinnet neatly over his bare arm, but looked up as Ruggiero uttered an exclamation. "What is the matter with you?" he asked. Ruggiero's face was quite red and his broad chest heaved as he bit his lip and thrust his hands into his pockets.
The convent undertakes to furnish money from time to time as needed for the pay of the journeymen, and fifty ducats beforehand for the hiring of assistants and other necessary expenses. Maestro Bino went to work at once, and on the 15th of that same April had from the convent what seems the very large sum of ten florins and eight soldi for glue.
I know her captain he is a good soul; but," and Andrea laughed lightly, "he is like the rest of us he loves money. You do not count the francs no, they are nothing to you but we look to the soldi.
I was one day bargaining for a boat to the Lido, whither I refused to be taken in a shabby gondola, or at a rate higher than seventy-five soldi for the trip. At last the patience of the gondoliers was exhausted, and one of them called out, "Somebody fetch the Bucintoro, and take this gentleman to the Lido for seventy-five soldi!"
The person on the steps of the bridge who had exposed his stock of cheap clothing and coarse felt hats on the parapet, had so far completed his preparations as to have leisure to be talking himself hot and hoarse with the neighboring barber. He was in a perfectly good humor, and was merely giving a dramatic flavor to some question of six soldi.
"Signorino Marchesino, I do when I have any soldi to buy them with." "Take these." The Marchesino emptied one side of his cigarette case into the boatman's hand, called a hired carriage, and drove off towards the Villa the horse going at a frantic trot, while the coachman, holding a rein in each hand, ejaculated, "A ah!" every ten seconds, in a voice that was fiercely hortatory.
Every peasant has a handful of Roman coins to part with for a few soldi. The churches of the island and the royal palaces of the mainland are full of costly columns which have been removed from the ruins of Capri; and the Museum of Naples is largely indebted for its treasures of statuary to the researches made here at the close of the last century.
"Carina assai," approved Mario. He was a round-faced, snub-nosed youth with clever brown eyes set very far apart, and a humorous mouth. "Carina assai!" he repeated. "Fifteen soldi the hour, from five to seven-thirty," said the professor. "Come a little before the time on Monday; the porter will show you what costume you must wear and I shall be there to pose you."
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