He was clad in his clean whitelazzarone garb, wearing the red Phrygian cap already mentioned.
Ghita uttered a faint exclamation, and, looking up, first saw that the feigned lazzarone was no other than Raoul Yvard.
Cuffe, Griffin, and the two Italians descended from the taffrail and awaited the approach of the supposedlazzarone or boatman of Capri, as he was now believed to be, near the stern of the vessel.
Even in battle, as in a race, the stamina of the Lazzarone blood was telling; the bulldog courage of the strain was strong upon Lauzanne, now that he was roused.
Lazzarone won the Suburban with blinkers on his head, bandages on his legs, an' God knows what in his stomach.
The sbirro folded his arms in a most dignified manner, and leaned his back against a post; the lazzarone stretched himself on the pavement at his feet.
Presently the lazzarone returned with his ransom in his hand.
As to the invalid, he at first tried to step over the cord fastened across the door, but the height at which the lazzarone had fixed it was too great for wooden legs to accomplish.
The lazzarone ran to the guard-house, and soon returned with an old soldier who was as deaf as a post.
He then endeavoured to untie it, but with no better success; for the lazzarone had fastened it in a knot compared to which the one of Gordian celebrity would have appeared a mere slip-knot.
The result of this is a coalition between the lazzarone and the sbirro--law-breaker and law-preserver uniting in a systematic attack upon the pockets of the public.
While the Englishman lounged about, pretending to be examining every thing with the greatest interest, the lazzarone busied himself in fastening a stout string across the doorway, at the height of a couple of feet from the ground.
There happened to be no regular guide at hand, so he took a lazzarone instead.
And in order not to excite the suspicions of the blind man and his dog, he left the house, and pretended to be examining a fountain made of shell-work, while the lazzarone went for a third guide.
The Englishman wished to return immediately to continue his drawing, but the lazzarone persuaded him to delay it, in order to avoid exciting suspicion.
I was one day in a church at Naples," he says, "and I heard a lazzarone praying aloud.
Capo Lazzarone himself has not staked on sixty-two.
I hope the Capo Lazzarone may not desert him for some other member of the Calendar, but he seems to threaten it.
The lazzarone, watching him, saw tragedy in his face, and was satisfied that the tip would be a large one; for the lazzarone knew that despair is as generous as happiness.
As soon as the little savings-bank book was placed in his hand, the Caracciolo grandfather awoke in him again, and murdered the lazzarone who cared not for the morrow.
The driver handed the luggage down, and a waiting lazzarone grabbed and shouldered it.
