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Updated: May 25, 2025
'Show me to the room, my friend. Lady Annabel accordingly, with a hurried step, following her guide, quitted the chamber. Pauncefort remained fixed to the earth, the very picture of perplexity. 'Well, to be sure! she exclaimed, 'was anything ever so strange! In the arms of Signor Forestiere! Forestiere. An English name. There is no person of the name of Forest that I know. And in his arms, too!
After replenishing his pipe he said slowly: 'That, Signorina, is a forestiere, too. 'A priest isn't it? 'A priest and not a priest, said the man after another pause. Then he laughed, with the sudden insouciance of the Italian. 'A priest that doesn't say his Mass! that's a queer sort of priest isn't it? 'I don't understand, said Lucy. 'Per Dio! what does it matter? said the man, laughing.
I saw at a glance that he was equal to the situation. He was presumably the author of the statuettes on the table, and he knew a money- spending forestiere when he saw one. He was a small wiry man, with a clever, impudent, tossed-up nose, a sharp little black eye, and waxed ends to his moustache.
But he kept his small eyes wide open and seldom let Maddalena be long alone with the forestiere, and this supervision began to irritate Maurice, to make him at last feel hostile to Salvatore. He remembered Gaspare's words about the fisherman "To him you are as nothing. But he likes your money" and a longing to trick this fox of the sea, who wanted to take all and make no return, came to him.
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