Marechiaro

Gaspare had gone down on the donkey to Marechiaro to buy a bottle of Marsala, which Lucrezia demanded for the making of a zampaglione, and Lucrezia was upon the mountain-side spreading linen to dry in the sun.

The Call of the Blood Robert Smythe Hichens 1907

Sicilian-Italian that was very imperfect, but that nevertheless had already the true accent of the peasants about Marechiaro.

The Call of the Blood Robert Smythe Hichens 1907

Gaspare went to Marechiaro sometimes, to see his family and his friends.

A Spirit in Prison Robert Smythe Hichens 1907

Before Artois left Marechiaro the tender treachery was arranged.

A Spirit in Prison Robert Smythe Hichens 1907

Vere was nearly two years old, he had paid a visit to Marechiaro, and, while there, had seen the contadino from whom Hermione had rented, and still rented, the house of the priest.

A Spirit in Prison Robert Smythe Hichens 1907

Sicily, when Maurice lay unburied in the Casa del Prete, and afterwards in the hospital at Marechiaro -- of other days and nights in Italy, when, isolated with the Sicilian boy, Gaspare, she had waited patiently for the coming of her child.

A Spirit in Prison Robert Smythe Hichens 1907

He knew that it would be dangerous for his Padrona to live again near Marechiaro.

A Spirit in Prison Robert Smythe Hichens 1907

It had made him think of an early morning long ago, when he and his Padrona had followed a coffin down the narrow street of Marechiaro, and over the mountain-path to the Campo Santo above the Ionian Sea.

A Spirit in Prison Robert Smythe Hichens 1907

So many years had passed that even if Hermione revisited Marechiaro he believed there would be little or no danger now of her ever learning the truth.

A Spirit in Prison Robert Smythe Hichens 1907

"I shall not go back to Marechiaro now," Hermione said.

A Spirit in Prison Robert Smythe Hichens 1907