And the pocket-book was again deliberately produced, opened, sought through; from one of its compartments was extracted a shabby slip of paper, hastily torn off: I recognised in its texture and its stains of ultra-marine, and lake, and vermillion, the ravished margin of the portrait-cover.
Prese il portafoglio e da una delle divisioni egli cavò fuori il pezzetto di carta che aveva strappato la sera prima e che copriva il ritratto della signorina Oliver.