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a great man’s WIFE 191
pany formed, shares, by-laws, concessions. How
should a woman be able to manage such things?
Some, however, were not satisfied with laughing at
Donna Micaela, some became angry with her.
She went to the cellar-like shop near the old
Benedictine monastery, where Master Pamphilio related
stories of chivalry. She came to ask him if he would
come to her bazar and entertain the audience with
Charles the Great and his knight-errants, but as he
was just in the middle of a discourse, she had to sit
down on a bench and wait.
She then observed Donna Concetta, Master
Pam-philio’s wife, who sat on the platform at his feet
with her knitting. As long as Master Pamphilio
spoke Donna Concetta’s lips moved. She had heard
his stories so many times that she knew them by
heart, and pronounced the words before they had
passed Master Pamphilio’s lips. Nevertheless she
always felt the same pleasure in listening to him, and
she wept and laughed as she had done when she
heard him for the first time.
Master Pamphilio was an old man, who had talked
a great deal in his day, so that his voice failed him
when he came to the great battle scenes, and it was
necessary to speak vehemently and fast. But Donna
Concetta, who knew every point by heart, never
took the word away from Master Pamphilio. She
only made a sign to the audience that they should
wait till the voice came. But if memory failed him,
Donna Concetta feigned that she had dropped a
stitch, put her knitting up to her eye and whispered
the word to him from behind it, so that no one
noticed it. And all knew that although Donna
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