Capitolo 76
what was it precisely that you said? I guess--perhaps--I didn't understand
only precisely what was that you said."
The smile in the deepened eyes of the Senior Surgeon a little. "I asked to you,"
he said, "as it would appreciate to consider a position of 'general
heartwork' in a family of two,--me and the Small Girl here that it is
the two.' 'Heartwork was what I said me. Yes,--'Heartwork,'--not
domestic matters!"
"_Heartwork?_" the faltered Lino's Bianca Nanny. "_ Heartwork?_ that I don't do
knows what you mean gentleman." As two pink-petals of fallen his/her eyelids
fluttered down through his/her eyes of affrighted. "Oh, when I closed me the eyes,
gentleman, and only it hears Your voice, I clearly know, gentleman, that it is of it
kind of a joke. But when I seem correct to You--me--doesn't know--that that it
be!"
"Open Your eyes and holds them opens then up to you discovers!" suggested
the Senior Surgeon brusquely.
Provocatively once more the blue eyes and the grey eyes they challenged each
other.
"'Heartwork was what I said" me, the Senior Surgeon persisted. Palpably
its narrowing looks closed out every meaning but one defined.
Almost does her some Nanny of Lino Bianca you/he/she must be whitened as his/her suit.
"Is it--you are not asking to me to--if the bridegrooms, gentleman?" she stammered.
"I suppose that I am!" gives credit to the Senior Surgeon.
"If don't marry her!" cries the Nanny of Lino Bianca. Anguish was her
voice,--distaste,--unmitigables shock, as if the of the tall same
his/her feet you/he/she was fallen to and you/he/she had splintered away in fragments of mere candy.
"Oh--not _marry_ Lei, gentleman?" she continued right to protest. "Not
both--_engaged_, do you mean? Oh, _engaged_ is not--and everything?"
"Well, because not?" the Senior Surgeon.
As a tormented flower the whole body of the girl seemed to fade down in
incalculable tiredness.
"Oh--anybody--no! I was not able!" she protested. "Oh, no,--really!" Attractively
she lifted his/her great eyes of blue to his, and blueness was all stained ones