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CHAPTER IX
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THE Norvells, with the exception of Fen, went ashore the next morning to wander for the last time in the Piazza, as they were to sail on the following day. Fen could tell them nothing of his expedition.
"I see now per fitly well why you couldn't tell me about it," he said to Sally.
He sat following in imagination the somber windings of a canal, when a soft "Buono giorno, caro mio," at his side, made, him open his eyes instantly.
"You're to sit quietly and not talk very much," said Siddereticus; "because you're tired after so much gondola-ing. What's that box on your lap?"
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