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Updated: September 22, 2025
"You see, Tista, that it will not be proper for you to sit and hold Lucia's hand when she is called Signora Carnesecchi, so you may as well get used to it." For a moment there was a dead silence in the room. Then Lucia and Gianbattista both sprang to their feet. "What!" screamed the young girl in an agony of terror. "Carnesecchi! what do you mean?" "Infame!
"That is four to-day!" cried Lucia, laughing. "First mamma, then papa figure to yourself papa! then Tista, and now Uncle Paolo. Eh! if the wings don't grow before the Ave Maria " She broke off with a pretty motion of her shoulders, showing her white teeth and turning to look at Gianbattista. Then the young man took them to see the grating.
"I bring you these," said he, simply. "Jesu-Maria! She sent me all this! how good! how generous! but ought I to take it, Herr?" "It is for 'Tista; to pay his apprenticeship. But there is a condition, dear Frau; 'Tista is not to know who sends him this gift. He is to be told it comes from an unknown friend. When he is older he will know, perhaps." "My kind dear 'Lotta!
He would hate a dog that Don Paolo liked." "What nonsense!" exclaimed the girl. "It is something else. Papa sees something something that I do not see. He knows his own affairs, and perhaps he knows yours too, Tista. I have not forgotten the other evening." "I!" ejaculated the young man, looking up angrily. "You know very well where I was at the Circolo Artistico. How do you dare to think "
"You had better lay aside the neck and take up the body just where I left it, Tista," he continued. "The scirocco is in your favour. If it turns cold to-morrow the cement may shrink, and you will have to melt it out again."
She is ill; too ill to rise this morning, and she wants to see you. Will you come back with me, for I think she has something particular to say to you?" "Yes, 'Tista, I will come."
He has admitted that he will have to consider the matter because he cannot make Lucia marry without her consent. But on the other hand poor Tista " he looked at the young man and hesitated. "He has turned me out," said Gianbattista. "He has given me an hour to leave his house. I believe a good part of the hour has passed already "
"I thought so," muttered Gianbattista between his teeth. Then he raised his voice a little and continued: "And have you the courage, Sor Marzio, to sit there and bargain with me to kill your brother, bribing me with the offer of your daughter's hand? Why do you not kill him yourself, since you talk of such things?" "Nonsense, my dear Tista I was only jesting," said the other nervously.
Gianbattista simply laughed, and explained the matter away in half a dozen words. Lucia was more deeply disappointed than any one, listening to her light talk, could have believed possible. Her face expressed the pain she felt, and she protested against the apprentice's explanation. "It is too bad of you, Tista," she said in hurt tones. "But I do not think you are right.
These are the first flowers I have ever had in my little dark room; and as for the scent of them, you know, 'Tista, that is a matter of taste, isn't it, just like color." "Yes," quoth 'Tista, emphatically, "I like roses!" But Herr Ritter interposed hurriedly. "Tista, how is your mother today?" "That is one of the things I came to talk about.
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