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“We didn’t know about this one,” Hyacinth said “We’ve read Miss Sainsbury and the Mysterious Colonel, of course”

“A military tale?”

“Set in Portugal” Hyacinth resumed her inspection of the shelf in front of her “It didn’t seem terribly authentic, however Not, of course, that I’ve ever been to Portugal”

He nodded, then stepped off his stool and moved it in front of the next set of shelves Hyacinth watched as he clihest shelf

“Re for?”

Hyacinth pulled the oft-folded note from her pocket “Discorso Intorno alle Cose che stanno in sù l’acqua”

He stared at her for a moment “Which means…?”

“Discussion of inside things that are in water?” She hadn’t meant to say it as a question

He looked dubious “Inside things?”

“That are in water Or that move,” she added “Ò che in quella si muovono That’s the last part of it”

“And someone would wish to read that because…?”

“I have no idea,” she said, shaking her head “You’re the Cantabridgian”

He cleared his throat “Yes, well, I wasn’t much for the sciences”

Hyacinth decided not to comment and turned back to the shelf in front of her, which contained a seven-volulish botany, torks of Shakespeare, and a rather fat book titled, si on her lower lip for a lanced back at several of the shelves she’d already cataloged, “that perhaps these books had been in order at soanization to it If you look right here”—she motioned to one of the first shelves she’d inspected—“it’s alht in theby Plato, and over on the end, An Illustrated History of Denmark”

“Right,” Gareth said, sounding a bit like he was griht”