"After this Angelica blushed, took half a step back: "I'm so, so happy . . . ," then came close again, stood on tiptoe, and murmured into his ear, "Uncle mine!"; a highly successful line, comparable in its perfect timing almost to Eisenstein's baby carriage . . ."
- Giuseppe di Lampedusa, The Leopard
If there's anybody alive out there, what is the allusion in the quote above?
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