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These will be a struggle , perhaps ; but I will make him see reason . He had been with his friends last night , and his mind was excited ; he was not himself . He will have thought differently of it this morning ; '' `` On the contrary , '' put in the Signora Pandolfi , `` he waked me up at daylight and gave me a quantity of money to go and buy Lucia 's outfit . And he will come home at midday and ask to see the things I have brought , and so I thought perhaps we had better buy something just to show him -- half a dozen handkerchiefs -- something to make a figure , you understand ? '' Don Paolo smiled , and Lucia looked sympathetically from him to her mother . `` I am afraid that half a dozen handkerchiefs would have a bad effect , '' said the priest . `` Either he would see that you are not in earnest , and then he would be very angry , or else he would be deceived and would think that you were really buying the outfit .