Tales of Firenzuola - ,,,,,,,, (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ...no sooner come than he did as the woman had bade him. The rogue had that morning related to her husband how the priest had more than once requested her for her virtue, and what you have just heard was unanimously agreed upon among them, in order to inflict a severe chastisement upon him. As soon as she perceived Dom Giovanni entering, she beckoned to Ciarpaglia as well as to one of his brothers, who were both watching out for the moment, and, preceding them softly, went off for the gallant, already tumbled into bed, with his legs thrown up. Dom Giovanni had no sooner espied her than, without fearing anything, he went to meet her, saluting her politely, wanted to throw his arms round her neck and kiss her in the French fashion; but he had hardly time to accost her, when Ciarpaglia appeared in an instant in crying out like a madman: - Ah, hah you whoremonger - of a priest tonsured pate wait, wait till I - bounce upon you, damned dog - Is that the way the good Reli- gious conduct themselves, eh? May - God heap calamities on you, you beg- gar's get Go and herd swineji Be off - to the stable, and not to the church to - govern Christians - Then turning aside to the brother, in a rage that had no equal: - Let me have at him, get out - of my way, - continued he; - don't be - holding me, I tell you, if not I fall - upon yourself; leave it to me: I want - to bleed my sacred whore of a wife, - and I wish to eat this traitor's heart, - red hot, red hot - While he was uttering these words, the priest, pissing in his breeches with fright, had stuck himself under the bed and began weeping crocodile tears, and to cry out for mercy with all the force..