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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence: asked: 'Do the signore want a gondolier for the twenty days or so that
they will stay at the Villa Esmeralda? Or by the day, or by the week?'
Connie and Hilda considered. In Venice, it is always preferable to have
one's own gondola, as it is preferable to have one's own car on land.
'What is there at the Villa? what boats?'
'There is a motor-launch, also a gondola. But--' The BUT meant: they
won't be your property.
'How much do you charge?'
It was about thirty shillings a day, or ten pounds a week.
'Is that the regular price?' asked Hilda.
'Less, Signora, less. The regular price--'
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