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"Perdio!" said Artois.
He used the Italian exclamation at that moment quite naturally.
Suddenly he wished more than ever before that Hermione had not taken
Peppina to live on the island.
"Hermione," he said, "I wish you had not Peppina here."
"Still because of Vere?" she said.
And now she was looking at him steadily.
"I feel that she comes from another world, that she had better keep
away from yours. I feel as if misfortune attended her."
"It is odd. Even the servants say she has the evil eye. But, if she
has, it is too late now. Peppina has looked upon us all."
"Perhaps that old Eastern was right." Artois could not help saying it.
"Perhaps all that is to be is ordained long beforehand. Do you think
that, Hermione?"
"I have sometimes thought it, when I have been depressed. I have
sometimes said to myself, 'E il destino!' "
She remembered at that moment her feeling on the day when she returned
from the expedition with Vere to Capri--that perhaps she had returned
to the island to confront some grievous fate.


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