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Morality was thick upon him, as upon
that "briccone" Emilio, something else was thick. About mediaeval
chivalry he knew precisely nothing. Yet, as the white wings of his
pretty yacht caught the light breeze of morning, he felt like a most
virtuous knight /sans peur et sans reproche/. He even felt like a
steady-going person with a mission.
But he wished he thoroughly understood the English nation. Towards the
English he felt friendly, as do most Italians; but he knew little of
them, except that they were very rich, lived in a perpetual fog, and
were "un poco pazzi." But the question was how mad--in other words,
how different from Neapolitans--they were! He wished he knew. It would
make things easier for him in his campaign against Emilio.
Till he met the ladies of the island he had never said a hundred words
to any English person. The Neapolitan aristocracy is a very
conservative body, and by no means disposed to cosmopolitanism. To the
Panacci Villa at Capodimonte came only Italians, except Emilio.


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