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Updated: July 13, 2025
And while her mother was calling for Stineli to help her in the kitchen, and the little children wanted her in the bedroom, her father was sure to shout out from the stable for Stineli to come to his help, for he had mislaid his cap, or his whip-lash was in a knot, and she found the one in a trice, it was generally on the meal-box, and her limber fingers had no trouble in untying the knotted lash.
He only awoke when the driver took hold of him to lift him down. All the passengers descended; and the three students came to the lad, shook him kindly by the hand, and wished a happy journey. One of them called out, "Greet Stineli very kindly for us." Then they disappeared up one of the streets, and Rico could hear them as they sang merrily, "And the lambkins, and the lambkins,"
"Nothing will ever make me happy again," said Rico; "but if you want to go, I will go with you." When they reached the door, they had arranged to go to the wood on the following Sunday, and Stineli was very happy at the thought. She did all that she was able to do through the week, and there was a great deal of work for her.
He had scarcely reached the side of Silvio's bed when he said, "Do you know, Silvio, with Stineli only can one feel perfectly well, and nowhere else."
"Do not you see, Rico, if all the kingdom belongs to the good God, He can surely find you a home? for He has all the power, so He can give it to you if He chooses." "Now you can plainly see, Stineli," replied the youth, "if the good God has a home for me in His kingdom, and has the power to give it to me, and does not, it is because He does not choose to."
She arranged the big room for him the one that had two windows overlooking the garden, and with a view over the lake with beautiful marble statuettes adorning the walls; and on the table she placed a vase of flowers, and the whole room was most prettily furnished, so that Rico stood still on the threshold when, at Mrs. Menotti's request, Stineli led him up there.
Now go; and for the future be very attentive to the music-lesson as long as you go to the school. In that way you may, perhaps, accomplish something; and in twelve or fourteen years perhaps you may be able to buy a fiddle. Now you may go." Rico cast one look at the fiddle, and departed with deep sadness in his heart. Stineli came running to meet him from behind the wood-pile.
"Do tell me, Rico," she said, "were you ever here earlier? I mean before; or what made you want to see the lake again, as Stineli told me was the case yesterday?" "Yes; when I was little," said the lad. "Then I went away." "How did you get here when you were little, Rico?" "I was born here." "What! here? What was your father, if he came here from the mountains yonder?"
They used to sit up there under the pines, and look out over the green waters of the lake, and had so many questions to ask and so many answers to give, and were so happy, that Stineli was happy all the week in thinking it over and looking forward, for Sunday always came again. There was yet one other person in the household who called for Stineli now and then, that was her old grandmother.
Rico advanced towards him, offering his hand, which the man took, but looked steadily at the strange lad. "Is it some kind of a relation?" he asked; for he was never very sure about the members of the family who sometimes visited them. "Even the father does not know him," said Stineli, rather vexed. "Why, it is Rico, father!"
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