18/30 A lemonade, San Miniato--ring for a lemonade. I am utterly exhausted." "Shall I ask Donna Beatrice's opinion about Tragara ?" inquired San Miniato rising. I suppose you will put me into that terrible boat and make me sit in it for hours and hours, until all my bones are broken, and then you will give me cold macaroni and dry bread and warm wine and water, and the sailors will eat garlic, and it will be insufferable and you will call it divine. And of course Beatrice will be so wretched that she will not listen to a word you say, and will certainly refuse you without hesitation. |