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inner courtyard, lay across the pavement where
it had fallen two thousand years ago, crushing in
its fall a big vase of Parian marble, the
lion-headed handle of which is now lying on my table.
Roba di Timberio, said Mastro Nicola picking up
a mutilated head of Augustus split in two—you
can see it in the loggia to-day.
When the macaroni in the parroco Don
Antonio’s kitchen were ready the bells in the
church rang mezzogiorno, we all sat down for a
hearty meal round an enormous plate of insalata
di pomidoro, minestrone or macaroni, soon to
be at work again till sunset. When the bells
below in Capri rang Ave Maria my fellow workers
all made the sign of the cross and went away
with a Buon riposo, Eccellenza, buona notte
signorino. Their wish was overheard by
Sant’Antonio, he worked another miracle, I slept
soundly the whole night, as I had not slept for
years. I rose with the sun, sprang down to the
lighthouse for my morning-bath and was back
in the garden as the others returned to work
from the five o’clock morning mass.
None of my fellow workers could read or write,
none had ever worked at the building of any other
houses than those of contadini, all more or less
alike. But Mastro Nicola knew how to build an
arch as did his father and his grandfather from
untold generations, the Romans had been their
masters. That this was going to be a different
house from any they had ever seen before, had
already dawned upon them, they were all
tremendously interested, nobody knew so far what
it was going to look like, nor did I. All we had
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