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This second visitor was none other than the Duke of Venice, who came in with a smile on his good-humored face, and a bluff greeting for both ladies.
Miss Tellaro was distressed that he should have come when her uncle was sitting with her, but the admiral's manners when confronted by Royalty underwent a distinctive change. If he did not, with his red face and rather bloodshot eyes, present a very creditable appearance, at least he said nothing during the Duke's visit to mortify his niece. His civilities were too obsequious to please the nice tone of her mind, but the Duke seemed to find nothing amiss, so that she supposed him to be too much in the way of encountering such flattery to think it
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