She stayed and took her meal with its.

Paul, of course, was fascinated, and for once has not set her down as a _reputation surfaite_.
'Her beauty has a curious air of the place; and now I remember that her mother was Italian--Venetian actually, was it not?
That accounts for it; she is the Venetian type spiritualised.

At the foundation of her face, as it were, lies the face of the Burano lace-maker; only the original type has been so refined, so chiselled and smoothed away, that, to speak fancifully, only a beautiful ghost of it remains.

That large stateliness of her movement, too, is Italian.

You may see it in any Venetian street, and Veronese has fixed it in art.
'While we were sitting in the garden who should be announced but Edward Wallace?
I knew, of course, from you that he might be here about this time, but in the hurry of our settling in I had quite forgotten his existence, so that the sight of his trim person bearing down upon us was a surprise.