There is Badcock too--il signore Badcocchio: give Badcock a hint, and
he will diffuse a most permeating respectability. For the young
ladies who dwell at the entrance of the court, over the archway, I
won't answer. My acquaintance with them has not passed beyond an
interchange of winks: but we might send Badcock to expostulate with
them."
"You are not dealing with a child, sir," said the Princess, with a
look at me and a somewhat heightened colour. "Be assured that I
shall have eyes only for what I choose to see."
Mr. Fett bowed. "As for the lodgings, I can guarantee them.
They lie on the edge of a small Jew quarter--not the main _ghetto_--
and within a stone's-throw of the alleged birthplace of Columbus; if
that be a recommendation. Actually they are rated in the weavers'
quarter, the burgh of San Stefano, between the old and new walls, a
little on the left of the main street as you go up from Sant' Andrea
towards Porticello, by the second turning beyond the Olive Gate."
"I thank you," I interrupted, "but at a reasonable pace we might
arrive there before you have done giving us the direction.
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