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the flight
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IX
the flight
At this time the little image from Aracoeli was
still in Diamante.
The English lady who owned it had become
charmed with Diamante, and could not tear herself
away.
She had rented the first-floor story in the hotel and
had arranged herself there as in a home. She bought
for large sums of money everything she came across
of old earthenware and old coins. She bought
mosaics and altar-pieces, and holy images. She
became possessed of the idea that she must get
together a collection of all the saints of the Church.
So she heard of Gaetano, and sent for him to come
up to her at the hotel.
Gaetano gathered together what he had carved
during the last days, and took it with him to Miss
Tottenham. She was very much pleased with his little
images and wished to buy them all.
But the rich English lady’s rooms were like the
lumber rooms at a museum. There were all sorts
of things, and all was disorder and confusion. There
stood trunks, half emptied, there hung cloaks and
hats, there lay paintings and engravings, there were
hand-books on traveling, tea services and
alcohol-lamps, there were halberds, missals, mandolins and
escutcheons !
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