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Saracinesca

CHAPTER VII
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He has a fine head." "I will ask him to sit to you when he comes here." "When he comes I shall be here no longer," answered Gouache.

"They will whitewash the Corso, they will make a restaurant of the Colosseum, and they will hoist the Italian flag on the cross of St.Peter's.

Then I will go to Constantinople; there will still be some years before Turkey is modernised." "Artists are hopeless people," said Del Ferice.

"They are utterly illogical, and it is impossible to deal with them.

If you like old cities, why do you not like old women?
Why would you not rather paint Donna Tullia's old Countess than Donna Tullia herself ?" "That is precisely the opposite case," replied Anastase, quietly.


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