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Valentine was awakened by the shrill overtones of the voice of the little maid coming through the open window. She had fallen asleep over the words: "Saepe te in somnis vidi! " to a vision of white limbs in the purple Adriatic. Eventually the child's voice said:
"We only sez ‘mem' to friends of the family! " shrilly and self-assertively.