." And her eyes were riveted on the Barricini mansion.
"Until your wedding day ?" said Orso, trying to avoid the end of her sentence.
"I shall never marry any man," said Colomba, "unless he has done three things.

.

." And her eyes still rested gloomily on the house of the enemy.
"You are so pretty, Colomba, that I wonder you are not married already! Come, you must tell me about your suitors.

And besides, I'm sure to hear their serenades.

They must be good ones to please a great _voceratrice_ like you." "Who would seek the hand of a poor orphan girl?
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