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A Roman Singer

CHAPTER II
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You are a fool.

Go home, and get Mariuccia to give you some syrup of tamarind to cool your blood." "Well?
Now tell me, were you never in love with anyone yourself ?" he asked, by way of answer; and I could see the fierce look come into his eyes in the dark as he said it.
"Altro,--that is why I laugh at you.

When I was your age I had been in love twenty times.

But I never fell in love at first sight--and with a doll; really a wax doll, you know, like the Madonna in the presepio that they set up at the Ara Coeli, at Epiphany." "A doll!" he cried.

"Who is a doll, if you please ?" We stopped at the corner of the street to argue it out.
"Do you think she is really alive ?" I asked, laughing.


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