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Updated: June 12, 2025
Indeed, as it was, one day out in the garden, when Scorpa was sitting near her, she thought she saw a knowing gleam in his eyes. Afterwards she tried to assure herself that it was a trick of her own consciousness; but she had not worn the earrings again in the daytime nor ever if she knew that Scorpa was to be present. She threw down her pencil.
We act from impulse, as the mood takes us we have not the hidden thought that you are always looking for." "You speak for yourself, Sandro mio, but all are not like you. However, since the picture is gone and since you have made that arrangement let it be. I may do Scorpa injustice; he has always professed friendship for you as indeed who has not?"
He was disturbed; but he could not bring himself to read into the duke's words a covert threat. His first impulse was to repeat the conversation to Eleanor, but he knew how the mere suspicion that Scorpa had detected her false stones had worried her. Curiously enough, in Sansevero's mind the larger issue of the picture was quite overlooked in the more immediate consideration of the jewels.
In the meantime he was untiring in his efforts to interest her, and evinced an ability to keep the conversation going with great skill even more skill than Giovanni, whose natural attractiveness could afford to do without the effort that Scorpa found necessary.
Derby gave her a glance of keen interest, but he expressed no surprise and asked her no questions. As a matter of fact, the gossip of the Cook's guide had partly prepared him for Nina's revelation about her aunt's fortune, and he had his own theories about Scorpa.
"It must have been a frightful experience," he said, as they started. "Thank God I came even when I did." A shudder ran through Nina. Instinctively she drew away from Giovanni, merely because he was a foreigner, and of the same race as Scorpa. She could still see those thick, loathsome lips approaching her own, and the recollection gave her a nauseating sense of pollution.
You see, we go to Rome; this picture hangs in an empty house, which through the winter is very damp, and bad, therefore, for the painting. Scorpa keeps his house open and heated; he takes care of it on that account. Is that not a wonderful reason?" "Whose reason was that?" "Scorpa's own!" He danced a few steps in his excess of delight. His wife arose and put her hand on his arm.
In the meantime Giovanni returned to the Palazzo Scorpa and, ascending the main stairway, entered the antechamber of the reception room. The old duchess was hovering anxiously at the entrance of the rooms leading to the picture gallery, the closed portières screening her from the guests to whom she had not dared to return without Nina.
Plausible stories of masterpieces discovered in out of the way corners were easily enough manufactured. So these thoughts all being to his utmost satisfaction, he went whistling down the street. The Duke Scorpa at the same time was being driven cheerfully homeward. That had been a stroke, that idea of pretending he was merely the intermediary.
The duke has often told me this himself, so I know it to be true." Derby thereupon said that the great Duke Scorpa had doubtless done everything possible, and that under the old method there had been no help for the conditions, but and again he expressed himself as clearly as possible with the new method and with machinery, one man could do the work of many.
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