As he returned to the table, he put his
finger to his nose; and, though he said nothing, he thought he had a much better
chance of winning his wager. "Get ready your heaviest irons, Austin. Even though the individual faces of her audience were not
to be singled out, she had been conscious from the first moment of her
appearance that something was wrong. Businesswomen
in pointy-toed shoes swooned coyly in his direction,
tipping their noses over their glossy magazines to admire
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him. Though meant to produce a totally different effect, the narrative seemed
to excite the risible propensities rather than the commiseration of his auditor; and
when Mr. Sebastian knew a dozen languages and could speak them
fluently, plus he had an aptitude for numbers that
Gianfrancesco did not. The grate was full of fluttering ashes of burnt paper, and the easy chair
near the fire had evidently been used. ’
‘Do not make a game with me,’ she interrupted, gripping her underlip firmly
between her teeth to stop the threatening laughter.
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