Let him study, let him work, let him invent,--you are worthy of all.' 'I hope I am not too hungry to discriminate! Zotti I see Monte Rosa.' 'Signorina, you are pleased to say so when you are famishing.

It is because--' the enthusiastic confectioner looked deep and oblique, as one who combined a remarkable subtlety of insight with profound reflection; 'it is because the lighter you get the higher you mount; up like an eagle of the peaks! But we'll give that hungry fellow a fall.

A dish of hot minestra shoots him dead.

Then, a tart of pistachios and chocolate and cream--and my head to him who shall reveal to me the flavouring!' 'When I wake in the morning, I shall have lived a month or two in Arabia, Zotti.

Tell me no more; I will come in,' said Vittoria.
'Then, signorina, a little crisp filbert--biscuit--a composition! You crack it, and a surprise! And then, and then my dish; Zotti's dish, that is not yet christened.