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Columba

CHAPTER II
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Do you remember Orcagna's 'Death'?
I think I could draw every line of it--it is so graven on my memory." Miss Lydia was afraid the lieutenant was going to deliver an enthusiastic tirade.
"It is very pretty," she said, with a yawn.

"Excuse me, papa, my head aches a little; I am going down to my cabin." She kissed her father on the forehead, inclined her head majestically to Orso, and disappeared.

Then the two men talked about hunting and war.

They discovered that at Waterloo they had been posted opposite each other, and had no doubt exchanged many a bullet.

This knowledge strengthened their good understanding.


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