Mozart’s Blood (2010)
“I know, cruel one, how you amuse yourself!
—Donna Elvira, Act One, Scene Two, Don Giovanni Teresa stood in the road while her friend’s aunt read her letter of introduction. The house was a narrow, dark building with stone walls and no garden at all. The door opened directly into the road, with no step or stoop to separate it. The aunt, named Gilda, was a stout, mustachioed woman with black hair and a glint in her dark eyes that did not bode well for Teresa’s petition.
“Signora,” Teresa pled. “O...nly a few weeks, until I—until I find work.”
Gilda raised one thick eyebrow and looked Teresa up and down. Teresa fidgeted. In the last three days she had felt more like a capon at market, assessed for how much meat she might provide, than a seventeen-year-old girl away from home for the first time.
“Not married,” Gilda said in a flat tone.
Teresa dropped her eyes in what she hoped was a modest manner. “Not yet, signora.”
“You can pay?”
Teresa fumbled in her little string bag and brought out the tiny cotton pouch where she had stowed her meager savings.MoreLess
—Donna Elvira, Act One, Scene Two, Don Giovanni Teresa stood in the road while her friend’s aunt read her letter of introduction. The house was a narrow, dark building with stone walls and no garden at all. The door opened directly into the road, with no step or stoop to separate it. The aunt, named Gilda, was a stout, mustachioed woman with black hair and a glint in her dark eyes that did not bode well for Teresa’s petition.
“Signora,” Teresa pled. “O...nly a few weeks, until I—until I find work.”
Gilda raised one thick eyebrow and looked Teresa up and down. Teresa fidgeted. In the last three days she had felt more like a capon at market, assessed for how much meat she might provide, than a seventeen-year-old girl away from home for the first time.
“Not married,” Gilda said in a flat tone.
Teresa dropped her eyes in what she hoped was a modest manner. “Not yet, signora.”
“You can pay?”
Teresa fumbled in her little string bag and brought out the tiny cotton pouch where she had stowed her meager savings.MoreLess
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