The $30,000 bequest and other stories . the wordssave one are guessable by a person ignorant ofItalian: ^^Itevolverate in tfeairo PARIGI, 27. - La Patrie ha da Chicago:II guardian© del teatro delUopera di Wal-lace (Indiana), avendo voluto espellere unoopottatore che continn&va a fumare mklgradoil divioto, queato npalleggiato dai suoi amicitiro diverse colpi di rivoltella. II guardianolispoae* Nacque ana scarica generate. Grandenanico ira gli epettatori. Nessun ferito. Translation. — Revolveration in , 27th. La Patrie has from Chicago: The copof the theatre of the opera of Wallace,
The $30,000 bequest and other stories . the wordssave one are guessable by a person ignorant ofItalian: ^^Itevolverate in tfeairo PARIGI, 27. - La Patrie ha da Chicago:II guardian© del teatro delUopera di Wal-lace (Indiana), avendo voluto espellere unoopottatore che continn&va a fumare mklgradoil divioto, queato npalleggiato dai suoi amicitiro diverse colpi di rivoltella. II guardianolispoae* Nacque ana scarica generate. Grandenanico ira gli epettatori. Nessun ferito. Translation. — Revolveration in , 27th. La Patrie has from Chicago: The copof the theatre of the opera of Wallace, Indiana, hadwilled to expel a spectator which continued to smokein spite of the prohibition, who, spalleggiato by hisfriends, tir6 (Fr. tire, Anglice pulled) manifold re-volver-shots. The cop responded. Result, a gen-eral scare; great panic among the spectators. No-body hurt. It is bettable that that harmless cataclysm in thetheatre of the opera of Wallace, Indiana, excited nota person in Europe but me, and so came near to not. The $30,000 Bequest being worth cabling to Florence by way of it does excite me. It excites me because I can-not make out, for sure, what it was that moved thatspectator to resist the officer. I was gliding alongsmoothly and without obstruction or accident, untilI came to that word spalleggiato, then the bottomfell out. You notice what a rich gloom, what asombre and pervading mystery, that word sheds allover the whole Wallachian tragedy. That is thecharm of the thing, that is the delight of it. This iswhere you begin, this is where you revel. You canguess and guess, and have all the fun you like; youneed not be afraid there will be an end to it; none ispossible, for no amount of guessing will ever furnishyou a meaning for that word that you can be sure isthe right one. All the other words give you hints,by their form, their sound, or their spelling—this onedoesnt, this one throws out no hints, this one keepsits secret. If there is even t
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