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Heart and Science

CHAPTER III
12/21

The works of art on show numbered more than fifteen hundred.

Teresa, looking over her shoulder, made the same discovery.

"Our heads will ache, and our feet will ache," she remarked, "before we get out of that place." Carmina laid aside the catalogue.
Teresa opened the Almanac at hazard, and hit on the page devoted to Amusements.

Her next discovery led her to the section inscribed "Museums." She scored an approving mark at that place with her thumbnail--and read the list in fluent broken English.
The British Museum?
Teresa's memory of that magnificent building recalled it vividly in one respect.

She shook her head.


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