Excerpt: ...again. "Was ever such pig-headed obstinacy! Was ever such arbitrary, voluntary blindness! I give you up, for a perverse, a triple-pated madman!" And so, John muttering and frowning, Winthorpe serenely smiling, reiterating, they passed round the corner of the Castle buildings, and were lost to Maria Dolores' view. III That afternoon, seated on the moss, under a tall eucalyptus tree near to Frau Brandt's pavilion, Maria Dolores received a visit from Annunziata. Annunziata's pale little face was paler, her big ...
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Excerpt: ...again. "Was ever such pig-headed obstinacy! Was ever such arbitrary, voluntary blindness! I give you up, for a perverse, a triple-pated madman!" And so, John muttering and frowning, Winthorpe serenely smiling, reiterating, they passed round the corner of the Castle buildings, and were lost to Maria Dolores' view. III That afternoon, seated on the moss, under a tall eucalyptus tree near to Frau Brandt's pavilion, Maria Dolores received a visit from Annunziata. Annunziata's pale little face was paler, her big grave eyes were graver, even than their wont. She nodded her head, slowly, portentously; and her glance was heavy with significance. Maria Dolores smiled. "What is the matter?" she cheerfully inquired. "Ah," sighed Annunziata, deeply, with another portentous head-shake, "I wish I knew." Maria Dolores laughed. "Sit down," she suggested, making room beside her on the moss, "and try to think." Annunziata sat down, curled herself up. "Something has happened to Prospero," she said, de profundis. "Oh?" asked Maria Dolores. "What?" She seemed heartlessly cheerful, and even rather amused. "Ah," sighed Annunziata, "that is what I wish I knew. He has had a friend to pass the day with him." "Yes?" said Maria Dolores. "I expect I saw his friend walking with him this morning?" "Gi
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