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He found that Palazzo Pinti, when you caold-banded porter eating salad in the lodge at the great

doorway, and a handsoions

above till you had rung the bell of Mrs Bowen's apart open of itself, and you mounted At her door a man in modified

livery received Colville, and helped him off with his overcoat so

skilfully that he did not hurt his rheumatic shoulder at all; there were

half a dozen other hats and coats on the carved chests that stood at

intervals along the wall, and sorance on the chilly air Colville experienced the slight

exhilaration, the erness, of a e of society after long absence froether, he put aside the

yellow Abruzzi blanket portière, and let himself into the brilliant

interior

Mrs Bowen stood in front of the fire in a brown silk of subdued

splendour, and with her hands and fan and handkerchief tastefully

coht start, which

would have betrayed to him, if he had been another woman, that she had

not really believed he would come, and came forith a rustle and