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Eleanor

CHAPTER XIV
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However, you liked them,--that's enough.

Now then, when and how shall we begin our campaign?
Where will you go ?--what will you see?
The crypt of St.Peter's ?--that wants a Cardinal's order.

The Villa Albani ?--closed to the public since the Government laid hands on the Borghese pictures,--but it shall open to you.

The great function at the Austrian Embassy next week with all the Cardinals?
Give me your orders,--it will be hard if I can't compass them!' But she was silent, and he saw that she still hurried, that her look sought the distance, that her cheek was flushed.

Why?
What new thing had he said to press--to disturb her?
A spark of emotion passed through him.
He approached her gently, persuasively, as one might approach a sweet, resisting child-- You'll come?
You'll let me make amends ?' 'I thought,' said Lucy, uncertainly, 'that you were going home directly--at the beginning of June.


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