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upon. I do not know if the Keats Society who
bought the house when I left it has put in new
doors in the room Keats had died in and where
I might have died myself had my number been
up. If the old door is still there, there is also
a small bullet-hole in the left corner at about the
height of my head, filled with stucco and painted
over by myself.
Another constant visitor to my
consulting-room was a timid-looking, otherwise quite well
behaved lady who one day with a pleasant smile
stuck a long hat-pin in the leg of an Englishman
next to her on the sofa. The company also
included a couple of kleptomaniacs who used to
carry away under their cloaks any object they
could lay their hands on, to the consternation of
my servants. Some of my patients were not
fit at all to be admitted to the waiting-room but
had to be established in the library or in the
back sitting-room under the vigilant eye of
Anna who was wonderfully patient with them,
much more so than I. To gain time some of
them were admitted to the dining-room to tell
me their tales of woe while I was having my
luncheon. The dining-room opened on a little
courtyard under the Trinità dei Monti steps,
transformed by me into a sort of infirmary and
convalescent home for my various animals.
Among them was a darling little owl, a direct
descendant from the owl of Minerva. I had
found it in the Campagna with a broken wing
half dead of hunger. Its wing healed, I had
twice taken it back where I had found it and set
it free, twice it had flown back to my carriage
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