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Updated: June 15, 2025
Why should I? The little thing defended itself all alone.... It does not want to be discovered and it sha'n't be.... It likes being here.... It presides over a good, honest business that satisfies it.... Pancaldi's luck! Why, it's known to all the neighbourhood, among all the dealers!
There were flowers on the table; and the statue of Mercury, Pancaldi's present, stood overtopping them. "May the god of luck preside over our repast," said Renine. He was full of animation and expressed his great delight at having her sitting opposite him: "Yes," he exclaimed, "I had to resort to powerful means and attract you by the bait of the most fabulous enterprises.
He simply idled about the hotel, or across at Pancaldi's, having picked up one or two acquaintances, kindred spirits in the art of graceful idling. He never even wrote me a note. Some deep game was in progress, but its nature I was entirely unable to gather. Now, truth to tell, I experienced a growing uneasiness concerning Rosalie.
He turned it about on its pedestal and examined it with the eye of a delighted connoisseur: "What a beautiful thing is a harmonious line! Colour does not uplift me so much as outline, proportion, symmetry and all the wonderful properties of form. Look at this little statue. Pancaldi's right: it's the work of a great artist.
As we walked across to Pancaldi's baths she told her new maid to go on in front, and in a few quick words explained. "I arrived direct from Paris this morning. Here, I am the Princess Helen of Dornbach-Laxenburg of the Ringstrasse, in Vienna, the Schloss Kirchbüchl, on the Drave, and Avenue des Champs Elysées, Paris, a Frenchwoman married to an Austrian.
By this time we had arrived at the entrance to the baths, where, on the asphalte promenade, built out into the clear crystal Mediterranean, all smart Leghorn was sitting in chairs, and gossiping beneath the awnings, as Italians love to do. Pancaldi's is essentially Italian.
The local papers that morning had announced that Her Highness the Princess Helen of Dornbach-Laxenburg, one of the most beautiful women in Europe, had "descended" at the Palace Hotel, and had been seen at Pancaldi's later in the afternoon. "As soon as I came down this morning I was pounced upon for information," I explained.
Jacobi himself was, it seemed, on friendly terms with Bindo. Sometimes I saw the pair strolling together at Pancaldi's, and once the young Marquis of Rapallo was with them. One hot, stifling night, a brilliant ball was held, arranged at the Princess's instigation, in the cause of charity.
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