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"Look at her, at the line of her neck, the fall of her shoulders still a young girl, and already a woman." "Yes, she is charming, and tolerably well off into the bargain." "Fifteen millions of her own, and the silver mine is still productive." "Berulle told me twenty-five millions, and he is very well up in American affairs." "Twenty-five millions! A pretty haul for Romanelli!" "What? Romanelli!"
"I know you are cognizant of something concerning this lady, Yolanda Romanelli. What is it? Tell me." Thus pressed, he rather reluctantly told me a strange story. "Well!" I exclaimed at last when he had finished. "It is all really incredible. Are you quite certain of it?" "Signor Hargreave, what I have told you is what I really believe to be true. That woman is in a high position, I know.
We turn L., continue direct through Rooms XIV. to XVIII. the old Petite Galerie and the apartments of the queen mothers of France still retaining their ceiling decorations by Romanelli.
With the paper in my hand the train slowly drew out of Rome on its way south. My mind was filled with suspicion. I was wondering vaguely whether the Marchesa Romanelli had been among the guests, for I recollected those words of Fra Pacifico that "the woman had committed sacrilege in the House of God."
Coming from the lips of any other than those of Fra Pacifico I should have suspected that the Marchesa Romanelli had once done him some evil turn. Yet when a man renounces the world and enters the cloisters, he puts aside all jealousies and thought of injury, and lives a life of devotion and of strictest piety. Fra Pacifico was a man I much admired, and whose word I accepted without query.
Even among some thieves there is no honor. Italy was represented by Lieutenant-Colonel Romanelli, who resided in Budapest; Britain, by Col. Sir Thomas Cunningham, who was in Vienna, as was also Prince Livio Borghese. Later on the Powers delegated generals to be members of a military mission to the Hungarian capital. At Bruck. On July 20th. Le Journal des Débats, August 4, 1919.
Now I know, furthermore, the origin of that small slab of verde antico which had puzzled me, mixed up, as it was, among the mosaics of quite modern marbles in that church whither I had been conducted by a local antiquarian to admire a certain fresco recently laid bare, and some rather crude daubs by Romanelli. Out again, into the path that overlooks the steep ravine.
Once or twice I had received "ferma in posta" confidential letters from Rudolph Rayne and also from Duperré. To these I replied to an unsuspicious address a library in Knightsbridge. By reason, however, of keeping observation upon the Palazzo Romanelli I gained considerable knowledge concerning those who came and went.
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