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Jerry

CHAPTER III
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'Why is he going ?' 'It is not possible for him to stand it, signorina.

Valedolmo too dam slow.' 'Gustavo! You mustn't say that; it is very, very bad.

Nice men don't say it.' Gustavo held his ground.
'_Si_, signorina, zat yong American gentleman say it--dam slow, no _divertimento_.' 'He's just about right, Gustavo,' Mr.Wilder broke in.

'The next time a young American gentleman blunders into the Hotel du Lac you send him around to me.' '_Si_, signore.' Gustavo rolled his eyes toward the signorina; she continued to sip her lemonade.
'I have told him yesterday an American family live at Villa Rosa; he say, "All right, I go call," but--but I sink maybe you were not at home.' 'Oh!' The signorina raised her head in apparent enlightenment.

'So that was the young man?
Yes, to be sure, he came, but he said he was looking for Prince Sartorio's villa.


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