[Helena by Mrs. Humphry Ward]@TWC D-Link bookHelena CHAPTER X 6/46
I guess that the woman possessing it would be a torment to her belongings if they happened not to suit her. And, my hat!--if you made her jealous!" "Was she handsome ?" asked Lodge. Geoffrey shrugged his shoulders. "Must have been--probably--when she was ten years younger." "And she possessed this bag ?" mused Buntingford--"which she or some one bought at Florence--for I've discovered the address of a shop in it--Fratelli Cortis, Via Tornabuoni, Firenze.
You didn't find that out, Helena." He passed the bag to her, pointing out a little printed silk label which had been sewn into the neck of it.
Then Vivian Lodge asked for it and turned it over. "Lovely work--and beautiful materials.
Ah!--do you see what it is ?"--he held it up--"the Arms of Florence, embroidered in gold and silver thread.
H'm.
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