Spicca

Of almost equal importance are San Giacinto, the giant cousin of the Saracinesca, Spicca, the melancholy but infallible duelist who dies in Don Orsino, Anastase Gouache, the French painter of whom Giovanni is jealous, and the villain Del Ferice.

Chapter 9. The Eighties and Their Kin. Section 2. Francis Marion Crawford 1921

"Come in and breakfast with us," said the old Prince to Spicca, as they reached the Palazzo Saracinesca.

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Spicca, quietly; and so, having shaken hands with all, he again entered the carriage.

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Poor Casalverde lost his head and did a foolish thing, and that cold-blooded villain Spicca killed him in consequence.

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"I am sincerely grateful for your kind offices," he said, as Spicca took leave of him.

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Count Spicca, whom he thus addressed, paused and looked round through his single eyeglass in some surprise.

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The melancholy Spicca, who looked like the shadow of death in the dim morning light, was the first to speak.

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The other men talked of the chances of luck with the hounds; and Spicca, who had been a great deal in England, occasionally put in a remark not very complimentary to the Roman hunt.

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"Spicca has killed Casalverde -- the man who seconded Del Ferice yesterday, -- killed him on the spot --"

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Tullia's glances, nor for the remarks she constantly levelled at him; still less was he amused by the shallow gaiety of her party of admirers, tempered as their talk was by the occasional tonic of some outrageous cynicism from the melancholy Spicca.

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