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'Now is the very time to read; for my poor Roland is at sea when we discuss our questions, and the book has driven him away. 'But we have plenty of time to read. We miss the scenes. 'The scenes are green shutters, wet steps, barcaroli, brown women, striped posts, a scarlet night-cap, a sick fig-tree, an old shawl, faded spots of colour, peeling walls. They might be figured by a trodden melon.
None of these excursions, however, were ever carried very far. For the next three months she remained almost entirely stationary at Venice, her head-quarters. She had taken apartments for herself in the interior of the city, in a little low-built house, along the narrow, green, and yet limpid canal, close to the Ponte dei Barcaroli.
'Now is the very time to read; for my poor Roland is at sea when we discuss our questions, and the book has driven him away. 'But we have plenty of time to read. We miss the scenes. 'The scenes are green shutters, wet steps, barcaroli, brown women, striped posts, a scarlet night-cap, a sick fig-tree, an old shawl, faded spots of colour, peeling walls. They might be figured by a trodden melon.
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