This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 Excerpt: ...for Mr. Hobart'a arrival. To-day when lie abruptly refused to let her go with him to see some of the people on his silk-farm, she became conscious of something unusual. Indeed Monaldi's refusal was so abrupt that she looked at him in surprise: it seemed to her that he was almost rude. "I suppose you prefer to go alone, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 Excerpt: ...for Mr. Hobart'a arrival. To-day when lie abruptly refused to let her go with him to see some of the people on his silk-farm, she became conscious of something unusual. Indeed Monaldi's refusal was so abrupt that she looked at him in surprise: it seemed to her that he was almost rude. "I suppose you prefer to go alone," she said; and he saw at once that she was vexed. "I think I do. It is not that I do not find you a pleasant companion, carina, on the way, but when you are among the people it is evident that you do not enjoy it, and I am afraid the poor people do not care to see us unless we go to them as friends." She shrugged her shoulders. "Your goodness makes you romantic; they may possibly care for you because the land they were born on has always belonged to your people; but it is not likely they could care for me, a foreigner after all; " she laughed, for she thought Monaldi had taken far too serious a view of such a trifle. "I suppose you will say I am a sad utilitarian; but I fancy they could do very happily without either of us, so long as they have the relief and clothing you so bountifully give them." "Your fancy shows "--his eyes were bright with anger--" that you do not understand Italians at all. They may be greedy, sometimes, to foolish tourists who fling about their money in a vain and reckless way; but ask any one who has lived much among them, whether gratitude and affection are not as strong motives with many of them, as love of money; but then "--he had moved towards the door, now he turned and faced her--" it is the same all over the world, with rich as well as poor, Luisa. To win love, you must give it; not kindness, or benevolence, or patronage, but that interchange of ...
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