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opposite corner house of Via Condotti to watch
through a powerful telescope the people who
were coming and going in and out of my house?
Yes, it was a very good telescope. Dr. Jenkins
of St. Louis had had to move to another house
because of that telescope.
Did he know that I had been summoned three
times in the night to the Grand Hôtel to pump
her stomach for an overdose of laudanum?
He said she always used veronal with Dr.
Lippincott, he suggested I should wait till the
morning next time she sent for me, she was
always very careful about the dose. Any river
about this town?
Yes, we called it the Tiber. She had thrown
herself from Ponte Sant’Angelo last month, a
policeman had jumped after her and picked
her up.
He said it had been unnecessary, she was
an excellent swimmer, she had kept afloat off
Newport for over half-an-hour. He was
surprised to hear that his wife was still in the Grand
Hôtel, as a rule she never remained in any place
more than a week.
I said it was her last chance, she had already
been in all the other hotels of Rome. The
director had just told me it was impossible to
keep her any longer, she was quarrelling with all
the waiters and chambermaids the whole day
and was moving the furniture in her sitting-room
the whole night. Could he not stop her
allowance, her only chance would be if she should
have to earn her living by hard work.
She had ten thousand dollars a year in her
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