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"Ah! Sebastiano!" said Hermione. "He's playing it for some one else in

the Lipari Islands. Poor Lucrezia! Maurice, I love Sicily and all things

Sicilian. You know how much! But--but I'm glad you've got some drops of

English blood in your veins. I'm glad you aren't all Sicilian."

"Come," he said. "Let us go to the arch and meet him."