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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