Grattacacio

Tommaso, otherwise known as Grattacacio, the ex-highway robber, about whom they had just been talking.

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Grattacacio, that is, 'Cheese-grater,' because it was told of him that he had once done good execution with that simple kitchen instrument on the nose of a sbirro who had tried to catch him, but was himself caught instead.

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For the rest, Grattacacio continued, they were gentlemen of exquisite taste and most fastidious in their eating and drinking.

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Grattacacio waited on their masters, the dishes being brought to the door by a scullion.

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When he was gone, the Bravi did not at once talk over the unexpected news, for Grattacacio was with them, coming and going, bringing hot water, shaving them as well as any barber, unpacking their linen and clothes, and waiting on them with such a constant prescience of their needs as only a highly trained body-servant can possess.

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Grattacacio had at once discovered that his colleague was one of those poor creatures that have not even the spirit to cheat their masters, and

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Grattacacio had announced them as two Venetian gentlemen travelling for their pleasure, and when the innkeeper asked their names, the man answered that they had received titles of nobility from the King of

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