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`` Oh , yes ; I know it . I dare say we should n't care for it in him , if he did n't seem so very nice otherwise . How handsome he is ! '' It was understood that Don Ippolito should come every morning at ten o'clock , and read and talk with Miss Vervain for an hour or two ; but Mrs. Vervain 's hospitality was too aggressive for the letter of the agreement . She oftener had him to breakfast at nine , for , as she explained to Ferris , she could not endure to have him feel that it was a mere mercenary transaction , and there was no limit fixed for the lessons on these days . When she could , she had Ferris come , too , and she missed him when he did not come . `` I like that bluntness of his , '' she professed to her daughter , `` and I do n't mind his making light of me .