A flock of fellow-pilgrims clattered11 by at high speed in care of a guide, who charged five cents a head for piloting them safely to the Italian colony. The hatless women, burdened with babies and heavy sacks, struggled bravely to keep up with the men, who carried the umbrellas. Bertino fell in behind, and soon they turned the corner of Franklin Street. Here they got their first glimpse of Mulberry, which lay clearly visible in the distance at the foot of a hill whose summit is Broadway. Beneath the Bridge of Sighs, which spans the street at the Tombs Prison, forming an arching frame for the picture, they could see the pleasant lawn of Paradise [Pg 20]Park. It was a bright afternoon, and the broad patch of greensward gleamed like a great emerald down there in the sunlight, and the low-roofed houses all around, with the sun’s fire in their window panes12, had a homelike countenance13. This was not the image their minds had wrought14 of Mulberry, where travellers said the people were herded15 in pens that knew not the light of day. How strange that no one had ever told them it was so cheerful and bello! But when they reached the heart of the quarter they had no more thrills from the contemplation of natural beauty. Here the air throbbed16 with the staccato cadence17 of south Italian patois18. The signs over the shops were no longer gibberish, and Bertino blessed the day that he, Armando, and Marianna had paid the mountain pedagogue19 three liras to teach them words of ordinary size.
Mulberry was in its accustomed Sunday manner. Nearly all the shops were closed, and their faces, so smiling on week days in scarlet20 wreaths of dried peppers, clusters of [Pg 21]varnished buffalo21 cheeses and festoons of Bologna salame, now frowned in shabby black or dark-brown shutters22. Madre Chiara’s bower23, evergreen24 on working days with chicory and dandelion salad and Savoy cabbage, had vanished with its owner. No gossip-hungry women, with primed ears, bent25 about the basket of the garlic seller on China Hill, for she was out with everybody to-day in her best clothes. The crippled beggar at the hydrant was not missing, but he shivered in the May sunshine because Sara the Frier of Pepper Pods was not there with her pail of fire. Another important brazier was in Sunday retirement—that of old Cantolini the Gondolier, and in consequence there floated on the air no suave26 odour of cooking pine cones27, whose seed the Napolitani of the Basso Porto so love to munch28.
In the rear courts, where gamblers at morra bawled29 and capered30 like madmen, rows of pushcarts31, their stubby shafts32 in the air, told of a twenty-four-hour truce33 in the [Pg 22]strategic fray34 waged between the peddler army and the artful police. The narrow ribbon of sky between the tall tenements35 had a Sunday look; it was not mottled with shirts of many patches hung out to dry, and the iron fire escapes, stripped of their week-day wash things in the general sprucing up, gave to the eye here and there the colours of Italy. The dingy36 caffès, from whose tenebrous depths tobacco smoke poured with the scent37 of viands38, were crowded with the Calabriani, the Siciliani, and the Napolitani of the rural districts visiting Mulberry for an innocent spree.
The jewelry39 shops were open and doing a lively trade. Young men bought wedding rings and tried them on the fingers of their promised wives, while faint-hearted bachelors, at the same counter, parted with their hard-earned coin for little silver-tipped horns against the evil eye. At the door a brawny40 flower woman in spickest gingham held a basket of dahlias fresh, mingled41 with carnations42 and asters that had lost the bloom [Pg 23]of first youth. It was a sure vantage ground for her traffic. The mating couples, proud in their ownership of the wedlock43 band, stopped at the basket, every one, and close-fisted indeed was the future husband who did not hand a posy to his bride elect.
As the wondering Bertino passed, bearded men in the rôle of newsboys bellowed44 their wares45 in his ears: “Il Progresso! L’Araldo! L’Italiano in America! Due soldi!” Literature got scant46 nourishment47, but tobacco-selling throve, and the man without a lengthy48 rat-tail cigar in his mouth was marked among his fellows. They were all in their smartest clothes. Starched49 shirts were too numerous to give their wearers distinction, and not a few of the clean-shaved necks fretted50 within stiff collars. Here and there dark-skinned young sparks with red neckties puffed51 cigarettes and showed fine in apparel that smacked52 of Bowery show-windows. Scarcely a woman was there from whose ears did not hang long pendants of gold, nor a feminine head that did not gleam in oily smoothness. [Pg 24]Shawls woven in the gaudy53 hues54 and fantastic patterns of Italian looms55 splashed the throng56 with colour, and a few of those large-rayed combs that Apennine maidens57 love to wear glinted in the sunshine of Paradise Park. Much courting went forward on the park benches, the fond ones caring not an atom for the stare of colder eyes, but retaining their entwined pose in sweet oblivion to the rest of Mulberry.
The company in charge of the five-cent guide followed their leader into a broad alley58, and Bertino was left alone in the concourse, at loss whither to turn. Not a soul gave the least heed59 to him. Those whom he asked to point him to 342 Mulberry Street, his uncle’s abode60, passed on shaking their heads and mumbling61 something in broad Sicilian or Neapolitan which the young Genovese did not understand. Some sighed as they made the sign of not knowing, as though that number were the darkest of mysteries. At length a gleam of light came over one face.
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“I know,” said the man, a young fellow decked in Sunday corduroy. “It is Casa Di Bello.”
“Yes; Giorgio Di Bello is the name of my uncle.”
“Your uncle? Santa Maria, signore! Let me carry your trunk.”
But Bertino only hugged the goatskin closer, the tales of Mulberry sharks current in every mountain hamlet of Italy being vivid in his mind.
“I’ll show you the house, anyway,” said the man of knowledge, and Bertino followed.
The sidewalk was too narrow for the buzzing stream. The asphalted roadway had become the grand promenade62, and there the panorama63 of Italia’s types unrolled: black men of Messina, with the hair and skin of Persia, exiled from Etna’s slopes mayhap by the glowing lavas64 that burn up olive grove65 and vineyard; red, flat-nosed men and fair-haired women of Lombardy, driven perchance from their fertile plains by the ruin [Pg 26]that rides grimly on the freshets of the Po, but brought oftener by the tax collector; cowherds and clodbreakers of the Roman Campagna, whose clear-toned dialect found an antiphonal note in the patter of the gaunt but often brawny sons of fever-plagued Maremma. Here and there in the moving throng strutted66 a labour padrone, out to salute67 and be saluted68 with lifted hat by all who prized his favour. One and all they uncovered as he passed—sturdy dwarfs69 from Calabria and the Basilicata, mere70 pegs71 from the heel and the toe of the Boot; limpid-eyed mountaineers from the Abruzzi, bronzed fags of half-African Sicily, riffraff of the Neapolitan slums; America-mad fishermen of the Adriatic and Tyrrhene, deserters of a coinless Arcadia to become hod-slaves with a bank account.
Slowly but volubly the clans72 of toil73 moved by, unheeded by a little mother whose life was given for the moment to shining the heavy gold rings in her baby’s ears.
“Eccola, signore,” said the man in corduroy,[Pg 27] pausing before a house that faced St. Patrick’s graveyard74. “This is Casa Di Bello, the finest domicile in the colony.”
It was an old-style brick dwelling75 of two stories and attic76 on the northern fringe of Mulberry—the only house in the street whose front was not gridironed with fire escapes. The low stoop, iron railing, and massive dadoes, the Ionian door columns of hard wood, the domed77 vestibule and generous width, marked it a rare survivor78 of the building era that passed with the stagecoach79 and the Knickerbocker—a well-preserved ghost of the quarter’s bygone fashion and respectability.
Bertino looked up and read in bold text upon a well-polished brass80 doorplate the assuring name, “Di Bello.”
“Grazie mille,” he said to his guide. “I am too poor to make you a present. Grazie mille.”
The other made off with a long face, but protesting that he had not expected a present for such a small service.
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Heartened by the nearness of a friend, Bertino gave the heavy bell handle a stout81 pull. Decorously and without undue82 promptness the broad-panelled oak swung narrowly, and the mountaineer looked into the stern complacency of his aunt Carolina’s eyes. He was too young to remember this smug dame83 of closing forty, who had gone from Cardinali twelve years before to become perpetua[A] in the Mulberry parish rectory. That peaceful career she had forsaken84, for reasons of which we may learn; but the eight years of churchdom were still in her head. Nor had she ever lost the outward badge. She was rotund and well-coloured, monastic of mien85, and sleek86 as a cathedral rat.
“Who are you?” she asked, scanning the lad from his hobnailed soles to the turkey feather in his hat.
“I am Bertino Manconi, nephew of Signor Giorgio Di Bello,” he answered [Pg 29]proudly, unabashed by her poignant87 stare. “Are you Angelica the cook?”
When her breath came free she said: “But it was to-morrow—Monday.” His arrival one day ahead of the appointed time shocked her rubric sense of order and ignored her ritual of coming events. “And you come to the door like a Sicilian, baggage in hand and——”
“Ha! Welcome to my house!” cried a hearty88 voice at the head of the stairs. “A hundred welcomes, caro nephew! But what a stupendous height! Step aside, my sister, and bid the giant enter. How is this? At the parish house did they teach you to make friends wait outside? Well, it is not so at Casa Di Bello. So you are a day ahead? Well, so much the better. Ah, what a fine voyage you must have had!”
It was no longer a voice on the upper floor, but the form and substance of a bush-headed, chubby89 man of dawning fifty, whose prodigious90 King Humbert mustache quaked as he puffed down the staircase as [Pg 30]best his short legs would permit. He threw himself upon Bertino, who had to stoop a little to receive a resonant91 salutation on each cheek. Then Carolina bestowed92 a pair of stony93 kisses, first remarking with wooden seemliness, “Welcome, my nephew.”
At the same moment Angelica the cook, a mite94 of a crone with a Roman nose, carried a steaming soup into the dining room, set it on the table, and called out in the shrillest Genovese:
“Ecco, signori; the minestrone is served, and the most beautiful minestrone I have made since the Feast of the Mother.”
After his three weeks of steerage fare Bertino fell upon the dinner with a zest95 that delighted his uncle, but dismayed Carolina, and caused the rims10 of Angelica’s eyes to spread until they were as round as the O of Giotto.
“Well, did you stop to pick up any gold in the street?” asked Signor Di Bello, winking96 at his sister, and sprinkling grated Parmesan over a ragout of green [Pg 31]peppers. “I suppose you have your valise filled with it.”
“Ma che!” said Bertino, holding up his plate and looking wise. “Do you think I am such a fool? I don’t expect to pick up money; but shall I tell you something? Well, it is this: In this country I shall soon make enough money to fill that valise.”
“By the egg of Columbus!” exclaimed Signor Di Bello. “Are you not to work in my shop?”
“Oh, yes; of course.”
“Then how do you expect to make so much money?”
There was no reason for it; but Bertino, oddly enough, yielded to a sudden impulse to repress the truth. Cocking his eye first to the ceiling and then on the tablecloth98, he uttered a fib that concealed99 his and Armando’s darling project for selling life-size busts100 in America.
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The coffee served and the maraschino sipped101, Signor Di Bello drew the straw from a Virginia and settled for a smoke, while Aunt Carolina showed Bertino to the room in the attic appointed for his use. She unpacked102 his few belongings103 and placed them tidily in a small chest of drawers, at the same time laying before him solemnly the parish-house rules by which she governed Casa Di Bello. Had her brother below stairs heard this, it is likely that he would have sent up many a guffaw104 with his smoke rings, for by him these rules had received little honour save in the steady nonobservance.
Carolina had never set her face against Bertino’s coming to the house, and there was no method in the frosty greeting she had given him at the door. It was merely that the sight of him, standing105 there, bag and baggage, a whole day before the time, had staggered her orderly being and drawn106 from her an instinctive107 protest. This all came of her unruffled years as perpetua of the rectory—that[Pg 33] domain108 of peace and even tenor109, whose broad, clear windows she often regarded wistfully, looking over the churchyard to Mott Street, from her sanctum on the second floor.
A half decade had gone by since the Wednesday of Ashes when the brother and sister patched up the quarrel that had separated them in their poorer days and she returned to the air of laity110. But the sacerdotal brand would not wear off, nor did she wish it to. In the conduct of the household her churchly notions had free scope enough, but applied111 in censorship of her brother’s life they met with dreary112 contempt. To no purpose did she preach when Mulberry buzzed with the latest story of his gallantries, for his ready argument was always an eloquent113 “Ma che!” and an unanswerable shrug114 of the shoulders. In vain did she wait up, often from compline to prime, that she might shame him when he came home aglow115 with bumpers116 of divers117 vintage. It was after a certain rubicund118 night at the Caffè of the [Pg 34]Three Gardens that he cut short her usual sermon with a roaring manifesto119 against church and state and a declaration of personal liberty for all time.
“Snakes of purgatory120!” he had remarked in conclusion, one foot on the staircase. “Am I not a man? If you want priests, go to the parish house, where you belong. Once a priest always a priest.” With this taunt121, meant to be a parting one, he toddled122 up to bed, but, reaching the landing, stopped and called back: “If you don’t leave me alone, I’ll bring a wife here.”
From that time, which was two years before Bertino’s arrival, she gave up her nocturnal vigils, and without let or hindrance123 the signore feasted and drank with boon124 comrades, and cracked walnuts125 on his head with an empty bottle—a feat7 for which he was justly renowned126 in all the caffès of the quarter. The lowering peril127 of a wife in the house had set her to thinking as she had never thought before on this dire128 possibility. [Pg 35]Her brother’s nonconformity was a flaw in her sceptre, but she knew that a wife meant the utter collapse129 of her sovereignty in Casa Di Bello. Wherefore she resolved to abide130 by the lesser131 evil, and bend her strength to warding132 off the greater. Thus it befell that with the accession of Bertino to the family she was not ill content. The coming of a man to the board imparted no misgiving133. What her soul dreaded134 and her wits had guarded against was the advent135 of a woman. And she felicitated herself that no wife had succeeded in crossing the threshold. To her ever-watchful eye, she fondly believed, was due the blessing136 of her brother’s continuance in the path of bachelorhood, despite the caps that were set for him on every bush. The first families of the Calabriani, the Siciliani, and the Napolitani, along with the flower of the Genovesi, the Milanesi, and the Torinesi, had in turn put forth137 their famous beauties as candidates for his hand and grocery store. But they all had been driven from the Rubicon, and at present there was no pretender [Pg 36]in the field. Had there been she would have known it, as she knew of all the other marital138 campaigns, through Angelica, who went to market daily and kept in touch with Sara the Frier of Pepper Pods, Mulberry’s queen of gossips.
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