childish nothings and babbled on without end, drawing her face close to his.
“Ah, darling little Violetta!” he whispered. “Sweetheart! Don’t go away, dear … ! If you go away your Nini will die, Poor Nini … ! Ban-ban-ban-bannn!”
Thus he continued stupidly, as he had done before with the opera-singer. Rosa Catana patiently offered him slight caresses, as if he were a very sick, perverted child; she took his head and pressed it against her shoulder, kissed his swollen, weeping eyes, stroked his bald crown, rearranged his oiled locks.
VI
Thus, Rosa Catana, little by little, earned her inheritance from Don Giovanni Ussorio, who, in the March of 1871, died of paralysis.
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