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The Marchioness of Boscofolto had accepted a seat in the windows of the Pievepelaghi palace, which formed an angle of the square, and she and her hostess the same lady who had been relieved of her diamond necklace by footpads suspected of wearing the Duchess's livery sat observing the scene behind the garlanded balconies of the piano nobile.
The great families the Trescorri, the Belverdi, the Pievepelaghi had outdone each other in the display of golden-threaded tapestries and Genoese velvets emblazoned with armorial bearings; and even the sombre facade of the Boscofolto palace showed a rich drapery surmounted by the quarterings of the new Marchioness. But it was not only the palace-fronts that had put on a holiday dress.
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