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There came a tap at the door.
Hermione started up from the cushion against which she had pressed her
head, and opened her eyes, instinctively laying her hand on Vere's
volume of Rossetti, and pretending to read it.
"Avanti!" she said.
The door opened and Gaspare appeared. Hermione felt an immediate
sensation of comfort.
"Gaspare," she said, "what is it? I thought you were in bed."
"Ha bisogna Lei?" he said.
It was a most familiar phrase to Hermione. It had been often on
Gaspare's lips when he was a boy in Sicily, and she had always loved
it, feeling as if it sprang from a nature pleasantly ready to do
anything in her service. But to-night it had an almost startling
appropriateness, breaking in as if in direct response to her gnawing
hunger of the heart. As she looked at Gaspare, standing by the door in
his dark-blue clothes, with an earnest expression on his strong,
handsome face, she felt as if he must have come just then because he
was conscious that she had so much need of help and consolation.


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