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Many carriages wait outside the cathedral, in the shade near the fountain. The fountain gushing upward joyously in the beaming sunshine out of a red-marble basin is just beyond the atrium, and visible through the arches on that side. Beyond the fountain, terminating the piazza, there is a high wall.
Wet as he was, he followed, and sat down, with his conductress, before the huge red-marble fireplace, in which a fire of logs was blazing by no means unwelcome on this not-uncharacteristic English summer's day. "Well, you 've had a good sousing had you a good walk?" asked the little brisk old woman, in her pleasant light old voice. "Yes to Blye, or nearly," said Anthony.
Finding himself on the broad, red-marble staircase in the silence of that ancient mansion, of such princely magnificence, he experienced the sudden sense of comfort and wellbeing that a traveler feels on plunging into a bath after a tedious journey.
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