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could not help it, his Maker had made him so.
Billy was not at all insensible to the attractions
of the other sex. Billy had taken a great liking
at first sight to Elisa, the wife of my gardener,
who stood for hours staring at him with fascinated
eyes, where he sat in his private fig-tree smacking
his lips at her. Elisa was expecting a baby as
usual, I had never known her otherwise.
Somehow I did not quite like this sudden friendship
with Billy, I had even told her she had better
look at somebody else.
Old Pacciale had gone down to the Marina to
receive his colleague, the gravedigger of Rome,
who was to arrive at noon with his daughter by
the Sorrento sailing boat. As he had to be back
at his job at the Protestant Cemetery the eve of
the following day, he was to be taken in the
afternoon to inspect the two cemeteries of the island.
In the evening my household was to offer a dinner
with vino a volontà on the garden terrace to their
distinguished visitor from Rome.
The bells in the chapel rang Ave Maria. I had
been on my legs since five o’clock in the morning
hard at work in the blazing sun. Tired and
hungry I sat down to my frugal supper on the
upper loggia, grateful for another happy day.
On the garden terrace below sat my guests in
their Sunday clothes, round a gigantic plate of
macaroni and a huge piretto of San Michele’s
best wine. In the place of honour at the head of
the table sat the gravedigger of Rome with the
two gravediggers of Capri, one on each side of
him. Next sat Baldassare my gardener and
Gaetano my sailor, and Mastro Nicola with his
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