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"He is dead as a stone," said one of the workmen in a low voice. "Eh! He is in Paradise," said another, kneeling at the priest's feet and rubbing them. "Take him to the hospital, Sor Tista " "Better take him home " "I will run and call Sor Marzio " "There is an apothecary in the next street." "A doctor is better apothecaries are all murderers."
'Tista, I suppose, had his business now, and of late his presence in the dark studio had become more and more rare; not that he was unkind, but that he was full of youth, and the vigorous love of youth; and the old man's talk was wearisome to ears that delighted in sounds of laughter and frolic.
I went in to find him again, you know, just as Lucia was leaving, and he showed me a crucifix a marvel, a wonder! he said he had had it a long time, put away in a box." "I never saw it," said Tista. "I did!" exclaimed Lucia. She regretted the words as soon as she had spoken them, and bit her lip. She had not told her mother what she had told Gianbattista. "When did you see it?
I cannot go to him, or I would; and mamma, poor mamma, is so afraid of him when he is in his humours. There are only you and Uncle Paolo to manage him; and after the way he insulted Uncle Paolo last night, it will be all the harder. Think of it, Tista, while you are at work, and bring me word when you come to dinner."
"Don Paolo is quite right, in the first place, when he tells you that the thing is simply impossible. Fathers do not compel their daughters to marry in this century. Will you do me the favour to explain your first remark a little more clearly? You said I had turned myself out how?" "You have changed, Tista," said Marzio, leaning back to sharpen his pencil, and staring at the wall.
He felt, too, that as Marzio and he worked together, he deserved acme part of the credit. "It is church decoration of course, and not a 'piece, as we say, but I would like to see anybody do better." "Well, well, Tista, forgive me," he answered, "The fact is, Marzio showed me something to-day so wonderful, that I see no beauty in anything else or, at least, not so much beauty as I ought to see.
The signora glanced down sadly at her figure, which certainly suggested no such weakness as she seemed to desire. "Well, Lucia," she continued, "and then?" "Yes, I talked to him, I implored him, I told him I should probably faint again, and, indeed, I felt like it. So he said I might have my way, and he told me to come home and tell Tista at once. Where is Tista?" "Eh!
"I think papa will go mad first," said Lucia. "I never heard of such an insane proposition in my life. All in a moment too I think I am to marry Tista papa gets into a rage and patatunfate! a new husband like a conjuror's trick, such a comedy! I expected to see the door open at every minute, Pulcinella walk in and beat everybody with a blown bladder! But Uncle Paolo did quite as well."
You seem to have lost your head, Tista. Be steady over those acanthus leaves; everybody thinks an acanthus leaf is the easiest thing in the world, whereas it is one of the most difficult before you get to figures. Most chisellers seem to copy their acanthus leaves from the cabbage in their soup. They work as though they had never seen the plant growing.
"It goes a little better or at least " "What? Who?" asked Marzio, instinctively whispering also. "Eh! You have not heard? Don Paolo they have killed him!" "Paolo!" exclaimed Marzio, staggering and leaning against the door-post. "He is not dead not dead yet at least," went on the old woman in low, excited tones. "He was in the church with Tista a ladder "
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