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family and had even taken her to England, but
he had never seen her and did not know what
had become of her after her husband’s death.
He was tremendously interested and wanted me
to tell him all I knew about her, adding that
what he knew about her husband was quite
enough for him. I told him it had all happened
long before my time. I had only known her
long after her return from England as a widow,
she was then already an old woman. All I
could tell him was what I had heard from old
Don Crisostomo who had been her confessor
and also her tutor. Of course she could neither
read nor write but with her quick Caprese mind
she had soon picked up a lot of English. In
order to prepare her for her life in England as
the wife of a milord inglese, Don Crisostomo,
who was a learned man, had been instructed to
give her a few lessons in various matters to
enlarge the limited range of her conversation.
Grace and good manners she already possessed
by birthright as all Capri girls do. As to good
looks it was safe to rely on Don Crisostomo’s
assurance that she was the most beautiful girl
in Anacapri, for I had always considered him as
a great connoisseur. All efforts to rouse her
interest in anything outside her own island having
failed, it was decided to limit her education to
the history of Capri to give her at least something
to talk about to her relations. She listened
gravely to the terrible tales how Tiberio had
thrown his victims from the Salto di Tiberio,
how he had scratched the face of a fisherman with
the claws of a crab, how he had strangled small
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