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_ It amuses her . '' Though Olive was not happy at the Palazzo Lorenzoni , she could not wish that she had stayed with her cousins . She felt that their little life would have stifled her . Thinking of them , she saw them , happier than before , since poor Gemma had not been easy to live with , and quite satisfied to do the same things every day , waddling out of a morning to early mass and the marketing , eating and sleeping during the noon hours , and in the evenings going to hear the music _ in piazza _ . Olive was not happy . She was one of those women whose health depends upon their spirits , and of late she had felt her loneliness to be almost unbearable . Her youth had cried for all , or nothing .