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Nurses and children were making their way out, and soon those who lingered would hear stentorian shouts from the gardeners, "Ora si chiude!" and they too would leave by one or other of the gates. Olive climbed down into the arena. Mamie was nowhere in sight, and Daisy Vereker and her maid were gone too.
The prospect which either of these plans opened was one of great fascination. What Italian can look across the sea to where the sun rises and forget that along that horizon lies a land colonised by Rome and guarded for four hundred years by Venice? Istria was marked out by Dante as the frontier province of Italy: Si come a Pola presso del Quarnero Che Italia chiude e i suoi termini bagna.
"Not real love," she said to herself. "Oh, God, help me to go on believing in that." Raising her eyes she saw the evening star sparkling in a wide, soft, clear space of sky. It seemed infinitely pure and remote, and yet somehow good and kind, as it had to Dante when he climbed up out of hell. "Quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle." "Ora si chiude!" bawled a gardener from the Belvedere.
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