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Perhaps it did, but all the same, six weeks later, toward the middle of June, the moment when Mrs. Prest undertook her annual migration, I had made no measurable advance. I was obliged to confess to h
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Perhaps it did, but all the same, six weeks later, toward the middle of June, the moment when Mrs. Prest undertook her annual migration, I had made no measurable advance. I was obliged to confess to h
I left Venice the next morning, as soon as I learned that the old lady had not succumbed, as I feared at the moment, to…
As it turned out the precaution had not been needed, for three hours later, just as I had finished my dinner, Miss Bord…
The fear of what this side of her character might have led her to do made me nervous for days afterward. I waited for a…
One afternoon, as I came down from my quarters to go out, I found Miss Tita in the sala: it was our first encounter on …
I was seldom at home in the evening, for when I attempted to occupy myself in my apartments the lamplight brought in a …
“Our house is very far from the center, but the little canal is very comme il faut.” “It’s the sweetest corner of Veni…
“I must work the garden—I must work the garden,” I said to myself, five minutes later, as I waited, upstairs, in the lo…
I had taken Mrs. Prest into my confidence; in truth without her I should have made but little advance, for the fruitful…
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