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therefore (avec respect), profusely salivating the bright floor
6ver his left shoulder, selon la coutume du pays, and extri-
catemg his right hand from its fashionable resting place in
the nankeen hose, in order the better to point at the object
of his comment, he declared that, without being usually an
abettor of his wife’s opinions (for which I gave him full cre-
dit), the position of the damsel’s hand was such, that it must
either move or stand still; if it moved, it must inevitably
draw the Faun’s head to her, and if it did not, it must leave
his head in its original place.
“ Bravo! bravo!” exclaimed the captain. “ Bravo!”
resounded the echo of the subaltern.—“ Benissimo !” added
the lively signora, “ see what it is to have a husband of
good parts, that has as much wit in his little finger as-in
all his brain.” The latter part of this compliment, it must
be said to her credit, was delivered con sordini.
,c You interrupted me,” r' continued Don Ignazio, “ be-
fore I had done. There is another thing to be observed.
This lady has thrown away her thyrsus and crotalum ; for
no other reason, I suspect, than to enjoy the frolic at her
ease; she would otherwise have kept them for her defence.
A crotalum appears to me an excellent weapon of defence,
which she might have used as a little shield, and with the
massy pine-apple-head of the thyrsus she might, if she had
chosen, have given the Faun a knock or two on the head,
which would, no doubt, have cooled his courage wonder*
fully.”
This additional observation of Don Ignazio I thought not
amiss. It put me in mind of the young woman’s pocket
handkerchief at one of our assizes.
We were on the point of taking our leave of the Faun,
when
therefore (avec respect), profusely salivating the bright floor
6ver his left shoulder, selon la coutume du pays, and extri-
catemg his right hand from its fashionable resting place in
the nankeen hose, in order the better to point at the object
of his comment, he declared that, without being usually an
abettor of his wife’s opinions (for which I gave him full cre-
dit), the position of the damsel’s hand was such, that it must
either move or stand still; if it moved, it must inevitably
draw the Faun’s head to her, and if it did not, it must leave
his head in its original place.
“ Bravo! bravo!” exclaimed the captain. “ Bravo!”
resounded the echo of the subaltern.—“ Benissimo !” added
the lively signora, “ see what it is to have a husband of
good parts, that has as much wit in his little finger as-in
all his brain.” The latter part of this compliment, it must
be said to her credit, was delivered con sordini.
,c You interrupted me,” r' continued Don Ignazio, “ be-
fore I had done. There is another thing to be observed.
This lady has thrown away her thyrsus and crotalum ; for
no other reason, I suspect, than to enjoy the frolic at her
ease; she would otherwise have kept them for her defence.
A crotalum appears to me an excellent weapon of defence,
which she might have used as a little shield, and with the
massy pine-apple-head of the thyrsus she might, if she had
chosen, have given the Faun a knock or two on the head,
which would, no doubt, have cooled his courage wonder*
fully.”
This additional observation of Don Ignazio I thought not
amiss. It put me in mind of the young woman’s pocket
handkerchief at one of our assizes.
We were on the point of taking our leave of the Faun,
when