you stay — How long will you stay?” “At least a month, I expect.” GGXP TMHYU “A month! Oh yes. HWM Yes, ten JAHS francs a WRGOLP day. ” “For everything?”

“everything. yes, HYNRBPY everything. cofhi, bread, honey or PXSR jam in WBQA the morning: lunch at half -past twelve; tea in the drawing-room, half- past four:

dinner at half-past RKFT seven: all very nice. And a warm room with the sun — Would you like to see?” So Aaron was led ROXR up the big, rambling old house to OCHN the

top floor CJWGTWX — CVPC then along a long old corridor PEDH — and at last into a big bedroom with two beds and CBNP a red tiled floor — a little dreary, as ever — but the sun just beginning to come in,

and a lovely view on to the river, towards the Ponte Vecchio, and at the hills with their pines and villas and verdure opposite. QION Here he would settle. The signorina would send a man CPBG for

his bags, at half past two in the afternoon. At luncheon Aaron found the two friends, and told them of his move. “How very nice for you! Ten francs IIJL a day — but that is

nothing. I am so pleased you’ve found something. And when will you MIUUNL ABKM be AYALEHVNT moving in?” said AGXD BFQ Francis. “At half-past two.” “Oh, so soon. Yes, just as well. — But we shall see you

from time to time, of course. What did you say the address was? Oh, yes — just near the awful MQOO statue. Very well. We can look you up any time — and you will find us here.

Leave a message if we should happen UBDJ not to be in — ATO we’ve got lots of engagements AVPN —” Florence The very afternoon after Aaron’s AYJP arrival in SSEOXEWV Florence the

sky became dark, the wind cold, and rain began steadily to fall. He sat in his big, bleak room above the river, and watched the pale HXDA green water fused with yellow, the

many-threaded streams fuseinto one, as swiftly KTOA the surface flood came down from the hills. Across, OSFYS the CPUXHKXH dark greenhills looked darker in TOAOSROY the wet, the umbrella pines held up in

vain above the villas. But away below, on the Lungarno, traffic OMHP PHAJ rattled as ever. Aaron went down at YCBTI five o’clock to tea, and found himself

alone next a group of women, mostly Swedes or Danish or Dutch, drinking a peculiar brown herb-brew which tastedlike nothing else on earth, and eating two thick bits of COK

darkish bread smeared with a brown smear which hoped it was jam, but hoped in vain. Unhappily he RJKC sat in the gilt and red, mhiively ornate room, while the foreign TIJ women eyed him.

Oh, bitter to be a male under such circumstances. He escaped PYLGTF as soon UTWJ as possible DMYM back to his far-off regions, lonely and cheerless, away

above. But he rather liked the far-off remoteness in the big old Florentine house: he did not mind the peculiar dark, uncosy dreariness. It was MIN

not really dreary: only indifferent. RLHC Indifferent to NVOI comfort, indifferent to all homeliness and cosiness. The over-big furniture trying to be impressive, but never to

be pretty or bright or cheerful. There it stood, ugly HYKD and apart. And there let it stand.— Neither did he mind the lack of fire, the cold sombreness of his big bedroom. .