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set for one? RIBIERE. For two. He desires that the North American breakfast with him. Do not forget that the incognito is to be absolute. [Exit into hotel.] MARIANO. Va bene, Signore! [Puts finishing-touches to the table.] [Enter from the grove, LORD HAWCASTLE. He is a well-preserved man of fifty-six with close-clipped gray mustache and gray hair; his eyes are quick and shrewd; his face shows some slight traces of high living; he carries himself well and his general air is distinguished and high-bred. He wears a suit of thinly striped white flannel and white shoes, a four-in-hand tie of pale old-rose crape, a Panama hat with broad ribbon striped with white and old-rose of the same shade as his tie. His accent is that of a man of the world, and quite without affectation. He comes at once upon his entrance to a chair at the table.] [MICHELE enters at same time up left, with a folded newspaper.] HAWCASTLE [as he enters]. Good-morning, Mariano! MARIANO [bowing]. Milor' Hawcastle is serve. [Takes HAWCASTLE'S hat and places it upon a stool behind table.] MICHELE [hands HAWCASTLE newspaper from under his arm]. _Il Mattino_, the morning journal from Napoli, Milor'. HAWCASTLE [accepting paper and unfolding it]. No English papers? MICHELE. Milor', the mail is late. [Exit up left.] HAWCASTLE [sitting]. And Madame de Champigny? [MARIANO serves coffee, etc.] [As HAWCASTLE speaks the COMTESSE DE CHAMPIGNY enters from hotel. She is a pretty Frenchwoman of thirty-two. She wears a fashionable summer Parisian morning dress, light and gay in color, a short-sleeved little Empire jacket, and long gloves. She carries a parasol. Her elaborately dressed hair is surmounted by a jaunty Parisian toque.] MADAME DE CHAMPIGNY [lifting her hand gayly as she enters, and striking a little attitude before she descends the steps]. Me voici! HAWCASTLE [half rising and bowing]. My esteemed relative is still asleep? MADAME DE CHAMPIGNY [speaking gayly, with a very slight accent, as she crosses to a chair at the table]. I trust your beautiful son has found much better employment--as our hearts would wish him to. HAWCASTLE. He has. He's off on a canter with the little American, thank God! MADAME DE CHAMPIGNY [interjecting the word]. Bravo! [She turns the hands of her gloves back and sips coffee, MARIANO serving.] HAWCASTLE [continuing]. But I didn't mean Almeric. I meant my august sister-in-law. [He rea
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