It had the impact of 1 definitely, for it brought her, as I say, all of the manner down. I begged her to hand it to her mistress, having first written on it in Italian the phrases, “Could you very kindly see a gentleman, an American, for a 2d?” The little maid changed into not unfavourable, and I reflected that even that changed into perhaps some element received. She coloured, she smiled and seemed each annoying and thrilled. I ought to see that my arrival grow to be a superb affair, that visits have been rare in that residence, and that she became a person who would possibly have favored a
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