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and still more offended that I had not had the
decency to meet him at the Marina with a donkey
on the arrival of the post boat as he had begged
me to do in his telegram. He would never have
come to Anacapri had he known he would have to
climb all by himself those seven hundred and
seventy-seven Phoenician steps leading up to
my wretched village. Would I have the cheek
to say I had not got his telegram?
Of course I got it, we all got it, I nearly got
drunk over it. He softened a little when I
handed him the telegram, he said he wanted to
take it to Rome to show it to the Ministero delle
Poste e Telegrafi. I snatched it from him,
warning him that any attempt to improve the
telegraphic communications between Capri and the
mainland would be strenuously opposed by me.
I was delighted to show my friend over the
place and to explain to him all the future wonders
of San Michele with an occasional reference to
my sketch on the wall in order to make him
understand it more clearly, which he said was
much needed. He was full of admiration, and
when he looked down from the chapel on the fair
island at his feet he said he believed it was the
most beautiful view in the world. When I
pointed out to him the place for the huge
Egyptian sphinx of red granite he gave me an uneasy
side glance, and when I showed him where the
mountain was going to be blasted away for the
erection of my Greek theatre he said he felt
somewhat giddy and asked me to take him to my
villa and give him a glass of wine, he wanted to
have a quiet talk with me.
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