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He held Artois by the right arm, gently assisting him into the broad-
bottomed boat.
"I only want to go to Naples."
"To which landing, Signore?"
"The Vittoria. But go quietly and keep near the shore. Go round as
near as you can to the Mergellina."
"Va bene, Signore."
They slipped out, with a delicious, liquid sound, upon the moving
silence of the sea.

CHAPTER XIX
Hermione was not going to Mergellina, but to the Scoglio di Frisio.
She had only come out of her room late in the afternoon. During her
seclusion there she had once been disturbed by Gaspare, who had come
to ask her if she wanted him for anything, and, if not, whether he
might go over to Mergellina for the rest of the afternoon to see some
friends he had made there. She told him he was free till night, and he
went away quickly, after one searching, wide-eyed glance at the face
of his Padrona.
When he had gone Hermione told herself that she was glad he was away.
If he had been on the island she might have been tempted to take one
of the boats, to ask him to row her to the Scoglio that evening.


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