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"You're the best of us, caro mio you and Aggie: for Aggie's as good as you. Mitchy's good too, however Mitchy's beautiful. You see it's not only his money. He's a gentleman. So are you. There aren't so many. But we must move fast," she added more sharply. "What do you mean by fast?" "What should I mean but what I say? If Nanda doesn't get a husband early in the business " "Well?" said Mr.
It came from the wife of one of his father's former workmen, and was concerning her son, whom she begged Jocelyn to recommend as candidate for some post in town that she wished him to fill. But the end of the letter was what arrested him 'You will be sorry to hear, Sir, that dear little Avice Caro, as we used to call her in her maiden days, is dead.
Augustine," I again corrected. "Ah!" said Caro, in his big, full voice. "He aspires not to Rome but to Heaven, my lord." "Then what the devil does he in your house, Fifanti?" quoth the Cardinal. "Are you to teach him sanctity?" And the table shook with laughter at a jest I did not understand any more than I understood my Lord Cardinal.
Addio, caro Inglese; mind you wait till you hear me snoring." Then she lingered, and I heard a sigh. "What is it, sweet Valeria?" and I covered her hand with kisses. "I wish Croppo had blue eyes like you." This was murmured so softly that I may have been mistaken, but I'm nearly sure that was what she said; then she drew softly away, and two minutes afterwards I heard her snoring.
He asked me to marry him," the troubled voice sank to a whisper, "and I I don't know what to do." "My dear." The tenderness of Miss Craven's tone sent a strangling wave of emotion into Gillian's throat. "Aunt Caro, did you know? Do you wish it too?" she murmured wistfully. Unwilling to admit a previous knowledge which would be difficult to explain, Miss Craven temporised.
Critics in general seem to show her a marked hostility; such men as Caro assert that she had no modesty, that she lacked sentiment, delicacy, and reserve.
He was not gay like Pocky, but he was intensely impressive, and spoke some lines in Italian, when asked to repeat a piece of Dante. Mrs Quantock knew they were Italian, because she recognised "notte" and "uno" and "caro," familiar words on Lucia's lips.
"Meanwhile, I will start." "You need not go yet, caro mio; it is not nine o'clock." "How far do you think I ought to go, Nino?" I inquired. To tell the truth, the idea of going up the Serra alone was not so attractive in the evening as it had been in the morning light. I thought it would be very dark among those trees, and I had still a great deal of money sewn between my waistcoats.
"Or, yet again, do you suppose her finery was afforded her by Caro? Messer Annibale Caro who is so much in debt that he is never like to return to Piacenza, unless some dolt of a patron rewards him for his poetaster's labours. "No, no, my shaveling. It was I who paid I who was the fool. God! I more than suspected the others. But you. You saint... You!"
"Ten louis!" said he, suddenly, looking at Marillac as if he wished to look into his very heart. "Two hundred francs, if you like it better. A genuine bargain. But we have talked enough, 'mio caro'; you deceive yourselves if you think you are going to make me blab. No, indeed! I am not the one to allow myself to become entangled. I am now as mute and silent as the grave."
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