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Excerpt from The Desire of Life
We shall not arrive before half-past eleven, Vittorio Lante, in a low voice.
Not before, affirmed Lucio Sabini, in the same tone. Both were smoking cigarettes fine smoke shadows, not clouds, scarcely ?oated round their faces, as their carriage continued to ascend, to the calm and regular paces of the horses, along the accustomed road, the long road that climbs, amidst a continual renewing of small and large valleys, of narrow gorges, and vast stretches, between the two mountain sides on right and left. At Chiavenna they found that the diligence had left, owing to a change in the time-table from the previous year, and for five hours a hired carriage had been conveying them towards the austere Grissons, whose outposts were not yet distinguishable.
What does it matter? Said Vittorio Lante, still continuing his thought aloud. It is better to arrive late at St. Moritz than lose a night at Chiavenna.
Or at Vicosoprano, concluded Lucio Sabini, throw ing away the end of his cigarette.
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