Alas! : a novel . on than would bethe case in reality, while she herself lies :--: ? a last word. What dm - ;: - : v : ;-_— will doc YoaT she saps* w ~_~ r- -- 5--r. ~:-r:- :_: - r :: -?: _ _ : dona do me good, and so I am sure i J to Poor Amelia will have the distraction of being married. rejoins theyoung man. who fee he could repeat the statrmeirt of this fact too often:: h:.: : :her= And I think it would be only civil.::- Z± -±rsis:±r.:iy :r. :..:: ido not see how you could avoid it. if youinvited your friend to join I lit Jim escapes without having com-mitted
Alas! : a novel . on than would bethe case in reality, while she herself lies :--: ? a last word. What dm - ;: - : v : ;-_— will doc YoaT she saps* w ~_~ r- -- 5--r. ~:-r:- :_: - r :: -?: _ _ : dona do me good, and so I am sure i J to Poor Amelia will have the distraction of being married. rejoins theyoung man. who fee he could repeat the statrmeirt of this fact too often:: h:.: : :her= And I think it would be only civil.::- Z± -±rsis:±r.:iy :r. :..:: ido not see how you could avoid it. if youinvited your friend to join I lit Jim escapes without having com-mitted himself to this promise, and nders _-.::_: :: r. in i:*lowering Kg : E f on the Lung not strolling along with the kloiterers, among whom r every two softTuscan voices there is a loud metallic^ He watches the ges g from their drive -. .:.- I — iint ::.- : :\iiin^ :vtrthe weir die rivef yellow as Tiberyesterday, and to-day shot with blue and t it tumbles with ani^asan: - The booses io6 ALAS! loved to look and adore in silence andalone; henceforth he will never havethe right to be alone; henceforth hewill never have the right to go any-where without his wife. Strange andterrible word to which he tries in vainto accustom his mental ears ; and, thanksto the narrowness of their means, neitherof them will be able to stir from thestrait precincts of their pinched home. He comes back to his hotel, throughthe Piazza of the Duomo. All the infiniterichness of cupola and arch, high up, arestill wrapped in the fiery rose cloak ofsunset, while below the body of the greatchurch, with all its marbles and traceriesand carved wonders, is clad in the sobrietyof twilight. On reaching the Minerva, he finds thatByng has not yet returned, or ratherthat he has been in and gone out waits dinner half-an-hour for him,and then dines without him ; dines insolitude, since it is not till his cup of coffeeis before him, and his cigarette between AMELIA. 107 his lips, th
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