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They stood side by side upon the pavement for a few
seconds, each wondering what the other was going to say.
"Perhaps we had better go and look at the house, Signor Principe,"
observed Contini, in the midst of an ineffectual effort to light the
stump of his cigar.
"I think so, too," answered Orsino, realising that since he had acquired
the property it would be as well to know how it looked. "You see I have
trusted my adviser entirely in the matter, and I am ashamed to say I do
not know where the house is."
Andrea Contini looked at him curiously.
"This is the first time that you have had anything to do with business
of this kind, Signor Principe," he observed. "You have fallen into good
hands."
"Yours?" inquired Orsino, a little stiffly.
"No. I mean that Count Del Ferice is a good adviser in this matter."
"I hope so."
"I am sure of it," said Contini with conviction. "It would be a great
surprise to me if we failed to make a handsome profit by this contract."
"There is luck and ill-luck in everything," answered Orsino, signalling
to a passing cab.


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