Word: pellerito
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With the score tied at 3-3 in the bottom of the eighth, Nova roughed up Crimson freshman reliever Frank Herrmann, picking up the game-winning run on a triple by Michael Pellerito. It was Harvard’s eighth loss...
...perhaps, in all Borgetto knew these things better than Antonina, the dark-eyed daughter of grizzled Angelo Polizzi, though she was only twelve years old. In a darkened room Antonina gazed in agony at the drawn slats on her window evening after evening as handsome young Giuseppe Pellerito strolled by on the Way of the Deluge. Were it not for her testy old father, the two might well have looked forward to marriage any spring, but Angelo had laid down the law: Giuseppe at 18 was too old for his daughter. Knowing this, Antonina knew too that even so much...
...move for sheer adoration. The following Sunday, when Antonina's mother went to waken her daughter, she found her gone. "Those two young doves," said a villager as he told of it later, "had flown." That afternoon when the doves had returned, irate father Polizzi haled Giuseppe Pellerito and his father Salvatore before a court of local elders in the butcher shop for the kind of arbitration known locally as ragionamento. a reasoning...
...girl's father told the court, "but alas I need no witnesses. The whole village knows what has happened to my daughter. I demand that Giuseppe marry her." Like Giuseppe himself, Borgetto's elders were all in favor of such a simple solution, but father Pellerito. still chafing over the fact that Polizzi once thought his son not good enough, held out. Hot words followed, until at last Pellerito blurted, "Your Antonina made my son lose his head." "You mean my daughter seduced your son? My little girl seduced your great lout?" screamed father Polizzi, purple with rage...
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