Part I
Part I - Chapter I - The Bertolini
_ Part I Chapter I - The Bertolini
The Signora had no business to do it," said Miss Bartlett, "no
business at all. She promised us south rooms with a view close
together, instead of which here are north rooms, looking into a
courtyard, and a long way apart. Oh, Lucy!"
"And a Cockney, besides!" said Lucy, who had been further
saddened by the Signora‘s unexpected accent. "It might be
London." She looked at the two rows of English people who were
sitting at the table； at the row of white bottles of water and
red bottles of wine that ran between the English people； at the
portraits of the late Queen and the late Poet Laureate that hung
behind the English people, heavily framed； at the notice of the
English church (Rev. Cuthbert Eager, M. A. Oxon.), that was the
only other decoration of the wall. "Charlotte, don‘t you feel,
too, that we might be in London? I can hardly believe that all
kinds of other things are just outside.

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