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"I was wondering if you would care to undertake a work for me." "I should be glad to do anything," she said anxiously. "I have some thousands of books in the villa. Those I have collected myself I know they are all in the library but there are many that were left me by my father, and others that came from an uncle, and they are all piled up in heaps in the empty rooms on the second floor.
Stafford looked round the large, superbly furnished room, with its book-cases of ebony and wedgewood, its costly pictures and bronzes, and recalled the Villa with its luxury and splendour, and the vast sums which Sir Stephen had spent during the last few months. It seemed difficult to realise that the wealth was all gone. "What is to be done?" he asked, in a low voice. Mr.
For years the Mediterranean Sea had been infested by daring pirates, who at last made it unsafe for a Roman noble even to drive to his sea- side villa, or a merchant to venture abroad for purposes of trade. Cities had been ravaged, and the enemies of Rome had from time to time made alliances with the marauders.
The same evening that M. de Camors, the elder, returned to his home bent on suicide, his son, passing up the Avenue Maillot, was stopped by Lescande on the threshold of his villa. "My friend," said the latter, "as you are here you can do me a great favor. A telegram calls me suddenly to Melun I must go on the instant. The ladies will be so lonely, pray stay and dine with them!
If he had not been so simple-minded he could have wheedled any amount of money out of her. The affair had now been going on for four month quite a long while, as such affairs went. Not for the first time did Madame Steynlin experience the drawbacks of her house, as regards natural situation. It was, as Don Francesco often pointed out, "the most unstrategic villa on Nepenthe."
Invited by them to breakfast at the hotel, she hurried back to her villa for a flounced dress and a lace cap of some pretensions, while they paced the shore. "See what may be said!" Adela's countenance changed as she muttered it. "Thought, would be enough," she added, shuddering. "Yes; if one is off guard careless," the captain assented, flowingly. "Can one in earnest be other than careless?
When Ludlow reached the gate that led to the landing, he turned to take a last look at the villa; and, favored by his new position, he caught a glimpse, through the opening, of the person of her who was still uppermost in his thoughts. La belle Barbérie was seated at the little table, by whose side she had been found, earlier in the evening.
Neither Chryseros nor Agathemer had any doubt that a close watch was being quietly kept to make sure that I could not now return to Villa Andivia without being caught; nor yet leave it if I did return or had returned. As a result of his discussion with Agathemer they had agreed that we were to leave by night and on foot, as we had originally intended.
Late in the afternoon we reached Villa Viciosa, a small dirty town, at the distance of eight leagues from Oviedo: it stands beside a creek which communicates with the Bay of Biscay. It is sometimes called La Capital de las Avellanas, or the capital of the Filberts, from the immense quantity of this fruit which is grown in the neighbourhood; and the greatest part of which is exported to England.
Oh, I have heaps and heaps of things to tell you. Can't we have a real, nice long talk to-night?" "Indeed we can," said Sheila, looking into the girl's bright, happy face. Somewhat to the annoyance of Grainger and his friends, they found on their arrival at "Magnetic Villa" that there were several other visitors there who had apparently come to dine. Whether they were personal friends of Mrs.
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