Book 2, Chapter 15: The Mysterious Letter

⁠​​​‌​​​​‌‌​‌​‌‌​‌​‌​​​​​​​​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌​​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌​​‌‌‌⁠Therese, after quitting Dechartre, took breakfast with her friend and Madame Marmet at the house of an old Florentine lady whom Victor Emmanuel had loved when he was Duke of Savoy. For thirty years she had not once gone out of her palace on the Arno, where, she painted, and wearing a wig, she played the guitar in her spacious white salon. She received the best society of Florence, and Miss Bell of