Mastro Don Gesualdo by Giovanni Verga

Author:Giovanni Verga
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781907650970
Publisher: Dedalus Limited
Published: 2012-04-25T04:00:00+00:00

Ciolla, who was Don Ninì’s confidant, said to him later:

‘What a silly you are! That fellow’s nothing but a – an old pimp. They swallow together the stuff you and Neri’s son send.’

Indeed he had often met Mommino on the stage, and even outside the door of the lodging-house, up and down like a sentinel. Mommino was now all smiles and sweetness for him. When it seemed to him that he was really made a fool of, he got in a rage.

‘Ah! – You want that?’ she said to him in fevered tones. ‘Well! – well – if there’s no other way of proving to you how I love you – If I must be lost at any cost – this evening – after midnight! – ’

There was a smell of stables on those dark stairs whose steps were dirty and broken by the iron-shod boots of all the clientele. At the top, a thread of light, and a white figure which offered itself entirely, brusquely, with hair all loose.

‘You want me – your Indian slave – your odalisk? – ’

There were dirty plates on the table, upon the bed a damask mantle worked with arabesques, carnations and a lighted night-light on the cupboard-top under the little picture of the Virgin, and a scent of incense rising from a pomade pot which was smoking on the floor. Over the doorway which led into the other room was nailed a beautiful turkish shawl, spotted with oil; and behind the turkish shawl could be heard Signor Pallante snoring upon his jealousy.

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