"And behold! the same notion had occurred to Azzolati.

Imagine that for this tete-a-tete dinner the creature had got himself up as if for a reception at court.

He displayed a brochette of all sorts of decorations on the lapel of his _frac_ and had a broad ribbon of some order across his shirt front.

An orange ribbon.
Bavarian, I should say.

Great Roman Catholic, Azzolati.