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Updated: June 2, 2025
All this was strictly true, and without further words she drove away to the Villino Barini, the brougham Severi had hired having already disappeared.
That room, at the corner of the Villino Trollope, which an ill-founded legend makes the place where George Eliot wrote "Romola," is to me sacred, as the place where we two passed "from death unto life." Nearly all that night we remained near the doors of the house, ready to escape any new shocks; but only one or two came, and those very light.
It was raining heavily and she drew the hood up over her head before she left the threshold, though the servant was holding up a large umbrella. The portress had asked the usual questions of him as soon as he presented himself, but Sister Giovanna repeated them. Was the carriage from the Villino Barini? It was. To take the nurse who was wanted for Baroness Barini?
The lane the waiter had told him of was not hard to find. It was a narrow path between high walls of olive orchards; it led straight down to the lake, and the entrance to the Villino was quite close to the water's edge.
She owned a house in Naples, at Posilipo, that is a villino, in pink stucco, a dainty little place with fig trees, nopals and parasol pines, that ran in a grove down a steep promontory to the sea I They would fish in the bay there it was as smooth and blue as a looking-glass!
She sat where she always did when she came to the Mother Superior's room, on a straight-backed chair between the corner of the table and the wall, and she told her story without once faltering or hesitating, though without once looking up, from the moment when she had got into the wrong carriage till she had at last reached the Villino Barini in safety.
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