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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. The Barber's Shop. To tell you the truth, said the young stranger to Nello.'. as they got a little clearer of the entangled vehicles and mules, I am not sorry to be handed over by that patron of mine to one who has a less barbarous accent, and a less enigmatical business. Is it a common thing among you Florentines for an itinerant trafficker in broken glass and rags to talk of a shop where he sells lutes and swords? Common ? No: our Bratti is not a common man. He has a theory, and lives up to it, which is more than I can say for any philosopher I have the honor of shaving, answered Nello, whose loquacity, like an over-full bottle, could never pour forth a small dose. Bratti means to extract the utmost possible amount of pleasure, that is to say, of hard bargaining, out of this life; winding it up with a bargain for the easiest possible passage through purgatory, by giving Holy Church his winnings when the game is over. He has had his will made to that effect on the cheapest terms a notary could be got for. But I have often said to him, 'Bratti, thy bargain is a limping one, and thou art on the lame side of it. Does it not make thee a little sad to look at the pictures of the Paradise ? Thou wilt never be able there to chaffer for rags and rusty nails: the saints and angels want neither pins nor tinder; and except with San Bartolommeo, who carries his skin about in an inconvenient manner, I see no chance of thy making a bargain for second-hand clothing.' But, God pardon me, added Kello, changing his tone, and crossing himself, this light talk ill beseems a morning when Lorenzo lies dead, and the Muses are tearing their hair?always a painful thought to a barber; and you yourself, Messere, are probably under a cloud, for when a man of your speech and ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217984973 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217984975 |
| Weight | 1.66 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.15 In |
| List Price | $17.89 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 516 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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