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The blood rushed to his
temples, his forehead. He put up his hand to his face.
"Signora," he said, "are you not coming?"
He cleared his throat violently. "I have taken a cold," he muttered.
He caught hold of his throat with his left hand, and again cleared his
throat.
"Madre di Dio!"
He spoke very roughly.
But his roughness did not hurt Hermione; for suddenly she felt far
less lonely and deserted. Gaspare had seen what she had seen--she knew
it.
As they went back to the house it seemed to her that she and Gaspare
talked together.
And yet they spoke no words.

CHAPTER XXVII
Neither Artois nor the Marchesino visited the island during the days
that elapsed before the Festa of the Madonna del Carmine. But Artois
wrote to tell Hermione that the Marchesino had accepted his
invitation, and that he hoped she and Vere would be at the Hotel des
Etrangers punctually by eight o'clock on the night of the sixteenth.
He wrote cordially, but a little formally, and did not add any gossip
or any remarks about his work to the few sentences connected with the
projected expedition.


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