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private. I thought the two satyrs would have taken the hintbut I counted without my host.
The aunt arosehoweverand took me into the next room.
I asked my question as delicately as possibleand she replied--
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I gave her the money on the spotand I saw that she was very gratefulbut I left her before she could express
her feelings.
Here I must tell my readers (if I ever have any) of an event which took place on that same day.
As I was dining in my room by myselfI was told that a Venetian gentleman who said he knew me wished to
speak to me.
I ordered him to be shewn. inand though his face was not wholly unknown to me I could not recollect who
he was.
He was tallthin and wretchedmisery and hunger spewing plainly in his every feature; his beard was long
his head shavenhis robe a dingy brownand bound about him with a coarse cordwhence hung a rosary and a
dirty handkerchief. In the left hand he bore a basketand in the right a long stick; his form is still before me
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but I think of him not as a humble penitentbut as a being in the last state of desperation; almost an assassin.
Who are you?
I said at length. "I thinyilai:
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