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She found her quick and full of enthusiasm. Her devotion to Stella made her tractable, and they became fast friends. It was in June just before the rains, that Monck came up on a week's leave. He found Tessa practically established as Stella's companion. Her mother took no interest in her doings.
Ralston sighed a little, but she persevered. "The child is at an age when she needs the most careful training. Surely you want her to respect you!" Netta laughed. "I really don't care a straw what she does. Tessa doesn't interest me. I wanted a boy, you know. I never had any use for girls. Besides, she gets on my nerves at every turn. We shall never be kindred spirits."
The mummy looked very lively, having unusually large dark eyes, though no more than the usual indication of a future nose. "This is my baby," said Tessa, seating herself close to Baldassarre. "You didn't think it was so pretty, did you? It is like the little Gesu, and I should think the Santa Madonna would be kinder to me now, is it not true?
"Yes," she said, carrying on her thought aloud, "you are a stranger; you don't live anywhere or know anybody, do you?" "No," said Baldassarre, also thinking aloud, rather than consciously answering, "I only know one man." "His name is not Nofri, is it?" said Tessa, anxiously. "No," said Baldassarre, noticing her look of fear. "Is that your husband's name?"
We are not clever enough, either of us. Peter now " "Oh, is Peter a magician?" said Tessa, with shining eyes. "Peter, dear Peter," turning to him ecstatically as he appeared with a box in which to imprison her darling, "do you think you could possibly teach my little Scooter to talk?" Peter smiled all over his bronze countenance. "Missy sahib, only the Holy Ones can do that," he said.
You've seen him biting the man in San Giovanni, I should hope?" Tessa felt much teased and frightened. "Oh, Bratti," she said, with a discomposed face, "I want to buy a great many confetti: I've got little Lillo and Ninna at home. And nice coloured sweet things cost a great deal. And they will not like the cross so well, though I know it would be good to have it."
Harvey was strolling about on the main deck, smoking his first pipe for many weeks. Presently Tessa appeared with her woman attendant. She, too, had dressed in white, and for the time had discarded the wide Panama hat she usually wore. Her face was radiant with happiness as she took the deck-chair which Chard brought, and disposed herself comfortably, book in hand.
However, the mischief is done now: I am so late already that another half-hour will make no difference. Pretty little pigeon!" "We have a garden and plenty of pears," said Tessa, "and two cows, besides the mules; and I'm very fond of them. But my father-in-law is a cross man: I wish my mother had not married him. I think he is wicked; he is very ugly."
"Isn't he?" said Tessa, eagerly, getting a little closer to him; "and I might go and see the Carnival to-morrow, just for an hour or two, mightn't I?" "Oh, you wicked pigeon!" said Tito, pinching her cheek; "those are your longings, are they? What have you to do with carnivals now you are an old woman with two children?"
She said nothing at first; she only opened her apron and looked down at her apricots and sweetmeats. Then she looked up at him again and said complainingly "I thought you would have some, and we could sit down under a tree outside the gate, and eat them together." "Tessa, Tessa, you little siren, you would ruin me," said Tito, laughing, and kissing both her cheeks.
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