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others ? When I wrote , I hope itmill not throw me into a fever , I forgot to write , nor you nei * ther . So that is the line in the
middle . S A . M . A . SPINELLA TO MR STIVERS . Sior * Jack , my dearest , do not be so very rash and headstrong * your Honour ! What lover can you mean ? I have been
trying Xo think , all the morning , who it may be : Eternally bound in duty and love , am I to you ( crucifix or no crucifix ) for my excellent friend Onofrio . The choice was the very best you could have made for me on this side of Paradise : and if
you had travelled all the world over , as you have the greater part of it , it would be difficult to have found another so adapted to his place . He lets me do what I like : and I never see
his broad grin and short nose , unless when hebringsmeapolite note . And you may rest assured , my dear , dear , dear Sior Jack , . ? oh , how I could kiss you if I I had you here ! . . that you if had you here ! . . that
J never receive any unless from qne oir other of the Signors , q \\ Rererendissimi , about the jtype ' s Nuncio , who are full of garb , and all have their ladies ,
who are full of garb also ; so that they do not think of me for &ny harm . If they did , the ladies > vould complain to the Nuncio ; and he would take
the thing up with a high hand , and w 6 iud not drop it quietly , but would make them all stand ^ thei r duty . Indeed , I wpuld of the
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tell him ; myself forJyer , knoyyA my uncle . , that is by name ?! But who could have taljl Voiu such a very silly story ? MaJ licious and envious people . Jj know which of them it was ; D know , and he shall hear of iti
again ; though I bear him ncd malice , neither him nor any-J body . . God be praised ! Iu the nuncio knew , woe betide him ! He has a peculiar esteemi for our house .
I shall not be married until ! after the Carnival . When I am married , you must not let ; Onofrio take liberties . What little I allow of the kind , is only for the sake of propriety and decorum ; and to keep him quiet and docile : so do not be
alarmed . My face and shape are just what they were in the beginning of our acquaintance , and I shall see that they do not suffer . You really make me laugh when you talk about writing deep tragedies . Indeed , now I think of it . 1 never
saw people weep at a tragedjy without a hearty laugh at theiu , or without a wink at the actors and actresses , to shew them that I knew better . Foreigners , vrlio come and see such things , are often affected by them * at least
the girls . Thq Florentines weep when the minesjta { ^ s smoked , or when their names are omitted in a * frill , ^ ftej ji woodcock is sejit tp , $ ^ pu r ^ j a place iu it . Hup , as py c <> ii $ in
I saj said , is enough , to mak ^ a CJir ^ - tiun w ^ ep > loo 4 ,, anrf , sigl | l 4 ya * My kind uncle has just Wight for we a fine high comb ^ jp
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High and Low Life in Ital y * SfiSl
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 1, 1837, page 3255, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1837/page/29/
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