Parona

The _Parona_, not knowing Italian, laughed in English.

Venetian Life William Dean Howells 1878

The Parona had the rare gift of learning to speak less and less Italian every day, and fell inevitably into subjection.

Venetian Life William Dean Howells 1878

If she came late in the morning, she stayed late at night; and it sometimes happened that when the Paron and Parona, supposing her gone, made a stealthy expedition to the kitchen for cold chicken, they found her there at midnight in the fell company of the Cognata, bibbing the wine of the country and holding a mild Italian revel with that vinegar and the stony bread of Venice.

Venetian Life William Dean Howells 1878

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Chapter 9 1982