Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 Excerpt: ...Turned pale! I dare say--the room is infernally hot!" Beppo purposed, as far as he could be said in the condition in which he was to purpose anything, to find his way to the inn, get his horse, and start at once on his return to Bella Luce. He had not been near Signor Sandro's house, and had with much difficulty forced himself to abstain from the temptation of passing down the street in which la Dossi's house was situated. It would be only pain to him to look on that fine big house again; yet he was sorely tempted to do so. As he was passing out from the door of the palazzo pubblico he encountered the little attorney himself, full of business and in a great bustle. "Oh, Signor Beppo, so you are hit! Never mind it, man. Signor Paolo can afford it, and never know the difference. It is a very different matter with some of these poor fellows. What! cheer up, man! Why have you not been in to see us? Lisa is up in the hall there. Ah, I know one that had a lump in her throat when you drew the bad number. You'll come home with us?" "Tf you will excuse me, Signor Sandro, I think I must go home. They will be anxious to hear the upshot of the drawing, you know." "Well, as you wilL But cheer up, man! I shall see you soon, no doubt; for you will be coming in about the finding of a substitute. Bythe-bye, have you seen your cousin, Giulia? From all I hear, I did better for her than I thought, in bringing her into the city. I am told she and a certain Signor Tenda, a corporal in the Bersaglieri, are likely to make a match of it! A very decent man, I hear, though he is but a corporal, and likely one day to have a pretty little property of his own." "I have seen nothing of her," replied Beppo, in a tone of profound dejection. &quo...
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