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"I am asked to send a selection of antique gems to the Loan Exhibition which is being got up by the 'Amis du Louvre' in Paris, after Christmas. I desire to send both the Arconati Bacchus and the Medusa in fact all those now in the case committed to my keeping." "I have no objection," said Faversham. But he had suddenly lost colour. "I can only send them in my own name," said Melrose slowly.
She found pleasant and congenial society: "I see the Brownings often," she says, "and love them both more and more as I know them better. Mr. Browning enriches every hour I spend with him, and is a most cordial, true, and noble man. One of my most prized Italian friends, Marchioness Arconati Visconti, of Milan, is passing the winter here, and I see her almost every day."
And that's the Muse which that stupid brute Vincent had my commission for, and let slip through his fingers at the Arconati sale!" Undershaw observed him, with an amusement carefully concealed. He had suspected from the beginning that in these possessions of the poor stricken youth means might be found for taming the formidable master of the Tower.
I could tell you the histories of those six, anyway, for generations. If it hadn't been for a fool of an agent of mine, your uncle would never have had the Arconati Bacchus." Faversham was silent evidently trying to feel his way through some induction of thought.
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