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It was five o'clock before a concierge, unexpected amiable in face of their refusal of her rooms, asked whether they had tried Madame Bianchi's Madame Bianchi where the atelier was, and the students' meetings on Sunday evenings, Number 57 Boulevard Montparnasse. They tried it.
Bianchi's bald head and fat, red, smooth-shaven face with its double chin time had not dealt leniently with the distinguished lithographer had inspired our hero to attempt a "Franz Hals smear," as Waller called it, and the Pole, when he arrived, was to sit for him in the costume of an old Dutch burgomaster, the big white ruff furnishing the high lights in the canvas.
But if the reconciliation is to be sincere, there must be a full explanation, and nothing must be left in doubt. Signor Prefetto, Tomaso Bianchi's declaration, coming from a man of such vile report, seemed to me justly open to doubt. I said your sons had possibly seen this man in the prison at Bastia." "It's false!" interrupted Orlanduccio; "I didn't see him!"
One is going to Venice to buy La Bianchi's larynx; he won't get it till she's dead, of course, but no matter; he's prepared to wait; he has a collection, pickled in glass bottles, of the throats of famous opera singers. And the instruments of renowned virtuosi he goes in for them too; he will try to bribe Paganini to part with his little Guarnerio, but he has small hope of success.
Been waiting half an hour for you and " Bianchi put his fingers to his lips with a whispered hush, knit his brow, and pointed significantly behind him. Every eye turned, and a breathless silence fell upon the group, followed by a scraping of chairs on the floor as each man sprang to his feet. Bianchi's surprise had arrived!
"Where was Tomaso Bianchi's interest?" exclaimed Colomba triumphantly. "His brother's lease had run out. My father had given him notice on the 1st of July. Here is my father's account-book; here is his note of warning given to Teodoro, and the letter from a business man at Ajaccio suggesting a new tenant." As she spoke she gave the prefect the papers she had been holding in her hand.
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