[Vittoria by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookVittoria CHAPTER XIV 6/34
Take some.
You shall have all, but wait:--by-and-by. Aha! you look at my eyes as you did on the Monterone, because one of them takes the shoulder-view; but, the truth is, my father was a contrabandist, and had his eye in his ear when the frontier guard sent a bullet through his back, cotton-bags and cutleries, and all! I inherit from him, and have been wry-eyed ever since.
How does that touch a man's honesty, signorina? Not at all.
Don't even suspect that you won't appreciate Luigi by-and-by.
So, you won't ask me a word, signorina, but up you go to the maestro:--signorina, I swear I am your faithful servant--up to the maestro, and down first.
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