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Rh morning. The next day they kept their word, and thus grew up. Vampa was twelve, and Teresa ten, and yet their natural disposition revealed itself. Besides his taste for the fine arts, which Luigi had carried as far as he could in his solitude, he was sad by fits, ardent by

starts, angry by caprice, and always sarcastic. None of the lads of Pampinara, of Palestrina, or of Valmontone had been able to gain any influence over him, or even to become his companion. His willful disposition (always inclined to exact concessions rather than to make them)