That takes the dark blood out of the cheeks.

But any woman would have looked twice at him.

Besides, there was, as there is now, a certain marvellous neatness and spotlessness about his dress; but for his dusty boots you would not have guessed he had been travelling.

Poor Nino.

When he had not a penny in the world but what he earned by copying music, he used to spend it all with the washerwoman, so that Mariuccia was often horrified, and I reproved him for the extravagance.
At last he finished writing, and put his letter into the only envelope there was left.