For, otherwise, I should not have ascended the steps of this papal staircase, nor have seen this debris of Grecian sarcophagi fitted into the walls, and this garden of so intense a green.

As for Gorka, he may have returned for thirty-six other reasons than jealousy, and Montfanon is right: Caterina is cunning enough to inveigle both the painter and him.
She will make Maitland believe that she received Gorka for the sake of Madame Gorka, and to prevent him from ruining that excellent woman at gaming.

She will tell Boleslas that there was nothing more between her and Maitland than Platonic discussions on the merits of Raphael and Perugino....

And I should be more of a dupe than the other two for missing the visit.

It is not every day that one has a chance to see auctioned, like a simple Bohemian, the grand-nephew of a pope." The second suite of reflections resembled more than the first the real Dorsenne, who was often incomprehensible even to his best friends.