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... Sir Rupert Lappin had become tenant of the first floor of the capacious Palazzo Belrotoli . Lady Lappin had declared again and again that she could not live out of Venice , and so far was her husband from desiring her death , that he ...
... Sir Rupert Lappin had become tenant of the first floor of the capacious Palazzo Belrotoli . Lady Lappin had declared again and again that she could not live out of Venice , and so far was her husband from desiring her death , that he ...
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... Sir Rupert to decline . Thus it happened that the Contessa Belrotoli returned to Venice with the spring , and on a pleasant after- noon swept down from the second to the first floor of her palace , guest of her sympathetic English ...
... Sir Rupert to decline . Thus it happened that the Contessa Belrotoli returned to Venice with the spring , and on a pleasant after- noon swept down from the second to the first floor of her palace , guest of her sympathetic English ...
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... Sir Rupert was hovering moth - like about his brilliant guest . " We have been quite desolate , " he said ; " quite desolate all the winter , I assure you , " and he added a little cough and a little bow as he handed her a cup of ...
... Sir Rupert was hovering moth - like about his brilliant guest . " We have been quite desolate , " he said ; " quite desolate all the winter , I assure you , " and he added a little cough and a little bow as he handed her a cup of ...
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... Sir Rupert had sometimes said in moments of unusual assertion ; " it's my belief that she'd starve if it wasn't for my good wife . " The little afternoon party went gaily on with light talk and the clink of teaspoons . The after- noon ...
... Sir Rupert had sometimes said in moments of unusual assertion ; " it's my belief that she'd starve if it wasn't for my good wife . " The little afternoon party went gaily on with light talk and the clink of teaspoons . The after- noon ...
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... Sir Rupert Lappin remarked tentatively that he seemed " uppish . " The proud youth was almost dumb in the presence of Lady Lappin's statuette of Cupid ; but he waxed loud in an attack on Captain Tiribomba for the intrigue of Italian ...
... Sir Rupert Lappin remarked tentatively that he seemed " uppish . " The proud youth was almost dumb in the presence of Lady Lappin's statuette of Cupid ; but he waxed loud in an attack on Captain Tiribomba for the intrigue of Italian ...
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