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...chapel rests the body of Agnes Devereaux, saintly lady. The village priest tells Toinette that Agnes Devereaux has made her the especial object of her benevolence, and Toinette is about to soften into sullen goodness when Michel enters. This brutal lover suggests stealing the cross from dead Agnes' breast. To prevent such blasphemy, Toinette rings the convent bell. Michel stops her and she cries out, "I'm done for." Contrast this with the ending of Il Pagliacci, "La comedia è finita...
...hook-nosed grandmother fulminates gutterally against her marrying an effete outsider, and his parents kick and scream at the conception of a lady tramp entering their highly starched family. Matters are further mangled by a gypsy lover, who hopes to solve the situation by poking a knife through the breast pocket of the intruding clean shirt...
...Dinner was a most imposing affair. Even in the old days at Berlin there was not more ceremony. The ex-Kaiser appeared in a glittering uniform, with decorations sparkling on his breast. . . . His consort (the former Princess Hermine) was magnificently gowned and all the staff were in full uniform. . . . I sat at the ex-Kaiser's right and next to me sat the Lord Chamberlain...
...achieved little of manhood when he died. He was a slim lad, slender, sapplingesque. Nothing so became him as his burial. The world's chief artificers buzzed about him. They stretched him out. His hands, as tired as a pair of autumn leaves, they folded across his breast. Upon his head they set the royal golden diadem, the eager vulture (Nekhebet), the playful serpent (Buto). From his neck they suspended amuletic idols. Pectorals of elaborate cloisonne they strewed upon his breast. A star beaten out of golden foil marked the place where his heart had been. Thirteen finger-rings...
...friend, a wounded Fascist officer who wishes to view the Armistice Day celebration." And early on the morning in question a certain "Major Silvestrini" limped into the little Hotel Dragoni, demanding the room which had been reserved for him. The hotel manager, noting that the "Major's" breast was covered with decorations and that his open throated tunic revealed a Fascist black shirt, showed him without comment to a room looking out upon the balcony of the Palazzo Chigi...