[1] ‘I Matrimonio del Signor Cajusse.’ This story, it will be seen, is altogether disconnected with the other of the same name at p. 158–69, and it is curious so similar a title should be appended to so dissimilar a story. It has not half the humour of Mr. Campbell’s ‘Baillie Lunnain,’ No. xvii. b. Vol. i., but is sufficiently like to pair off against it. It is also observable for representing exactly the proceeding of the ‘Marquis di Carabas’ in ‘Puss in Boots.’ [↑]
[2] ‘Mercante di Campagna,’ see n. 2, p. 154. [↑]
[3] ‘Tenuta,’ a farm; a holding. [↑]
[4] ‘Merenda,’ see n. 7, p. 155. [↑]
THE DAUGHTER OF COUNT LATTANZIO.[1]
Count Lattanzio had a daughter who was in love with a lawyer, but the count was not at all inclined to let her marry beneath her station, and he took all the pains imaginable to prevent them from meeting; so much so that he scarcely left her out of his sight. One day he was obliged to go to his vineyard outside the gates, and before he left he gave strict injunctions to his servant to let no one in till he came back at 21 o’clock.[2]
It was an hour before 21 o’clock, and there was a knock at the door.
‘Is the Count Lattanzio in?’