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The moment the idea came into her head, upon the spur of the occasion, she resolved to execute it directly. It was settled between the drawing-room door and her dressing-room. And when thus executed successfully, with happy sophistry she justified it to herself. "After all," said she to herself, "though it was not absolutely true, it was ben trovato, it was as near the truth, perhaps, as possible.
Is the story true or ben trovato? Who can say! It reposes on tradition. Ness Cliff, the rock, in the face of which Humphrey Kynaston lived four hundred years ago, remains, with his cave, his flight of steps, up which ran his faithful horse, his stable, and the feeding trough, and the hearth on which burned Wild Humphrey's fire, very much as he left it. Only one feature is changed.
I know no pianist like him, no composer for the piano like him. Visit me when you come to Berlin. Are we not now comrades? When one has met at the house of so great a man, it was for life. Kwiatkowski told me a pretty story which se non vero is certainly ben trovato.
"'You are a musician? "'I am fourth bass at the Marseilles theatre. "'Bring this gentleman's bass, said the captain to one of his men. 'Now, my little Rina, said he, turning to his mistress, 'I hope you are ready to dance." "'I always was, answered she, 'but how could I without music? "'Non ho trovato l'instrumento, said the robber, reappearing at the door.
Nor, I think, do we know what passed; the accounts we get are from the pen of honest Ben Trovato; Vero, the modest, had but little hand in them. We shall come to them later.
And here are some favourite methods of conclusion: A mad world, my masters! 'Tis true 'tis pity, and pity 'tis 'tis true. There is much virtue in that 'if. But that, as Mr. Kipling would say, is another story. Si non e' vero, etc. We fancy we recognise here the hand of Mr. Benjamin Trovato. Not less inevitable are such parallelisms as:
Over each waved the scutcheon of the president. Glittering were the glories of the hundred quarterings of the house of Darrell. 'Si non è vero è ben trovato, was the motto. Lord Darrell's grandfather had been a successful lawyer. Lord Squib's emblazonry was a satire on its owner. 'Holdfast' was the motto of a man who had let loose.
Shortly after my installation as vice-admiral in the Turkish navy, it was decided that I should be sent to Crete to put a stop to the blockade-running. 'Set a thief to catch a thief, as one of my, what may be called, unfriendly critics has written about me, and the remark was ben trovato at all events, for I certainly did know something about blockade-running.
Perhaps at points the romantic may infringe upon the historic, but: Se non e vero, E ben trovato. Down by the green meadows of Sudbury there dwelt a bewitchingly fair maiden, the musical dissyllables of whose name were often upon the lips of the young men in all the country round about, and whose smile could awaken voiceless poetry in the heart of the most prosaic Puritan swain.
But that Abdul Hamid, apt at expedients, had learnt this fact, and had sent Franz Josef a polite message regretting that he was unable in person to receive His Majesty on this, his first visit to a Turkish province, but assuring him that his reception should be in every way suitable. Se non vero, ben trovato.
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