The Brewer of Preston (2014)
“Prefect Bortuzzi said sternly, frowning and leaning against the high back of his armchair. He was displeased with the back-and-forth discussion he had been having for the past half hour with his interlocutor, who, courteously but firmly, hadn’t budged a millimeter from his position.
What do you expect from a Piedmontese? thought Bortuzzi. Piemontese falso e cortese, as the saying went.
“And you, likewise, know how I feel about it,” brutally replied Colonel Aymone Vidusso, commanding off...icer of the Royal Forces at Montelusa, looking Bortuzzi straight in the eye, and adding: “I find what is happening utterly senseless.”
“Senseless?”
“Yes indeed, sir.”
“And why is that?”
“We cannot risk provoking a popular uprising simply because you insist on indulging your whim of staging an opera that, to judge by appearances, the people of Vigàta really do not like and will not tolerate.”MoreLess
What do you expect from a Piedmontese? thought Bortuzzi. Piemontese falso e cortese, as the saying went.
“And you, likewise, know how I feel about it,” brutally replied Colonel Aymone Vidusso, commanding off...icer of the Royal Forces at Montelusa, looking Bortuzzi straight in the eye, and adding: “I find what is happening utterly senseless.”
“Senseless?”
“Yes indeed, sir.”
“And why is that?”
“We cannot risk provoking a popular uprising simply because you insist on indulging your whim of staging an opera that, to judge by appearances, the people of Vigàta really do not like and will not tolerate.”MoreLess
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