Reanda

It was impossible to know what Gloria would tell Reanda.

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Reanda always came home to the midday breakfast, and it was nearly time for him to be on his way.

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Francesca saw an opportunity of bringing Reanda and Gloria together.

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She had no one to whom she could turn when she was in need of any advice on matters which Reanda could not or would not decide.

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He was not like Reanda; for his sensitiveness was one-sided, and therefore only half vulnerable.

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"But he is an ugly man," observed Reanda, almost immediately.

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Reanda, and he would as soon have thought of being in love with her, as men love women, as he would have imagined that his father, for instance, could have loved Maria Addolorata, the Carmelite nun.

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She sometimes met Reanda when he left the palace, and they walked home together to their midday breakfast.

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Reanda suspected, with a shrewd intuition, that the American admired Gloria, but that she did not like him much.

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She looked at Reanda, and her lip curled with scorn of herself for having loved such a thing.

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