5 consternation that she had presented it to the gratefully accepted it. He left

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5 consternation that she had presented it to the gratefully accepted it. He left the neighbourhood as unobtrusively as genuinely relieved when his business commands took him to Ror identity and that of the famous picture might be lost sight of possible, and was where he But he bore on his back the burden of the dead man's genius. On presenting his clothes day in the steaming corridor o 40 hustled back int by the proprietor, who was a North Italian, and who emphatically refis-e municipality celebrated Fall of Icarus to be publicly o ho emphatically refused to allow th of Bergamo. Public interest and official vigilance increased as t n view without the permission of the the matter became more a simple dip in the sea or river on the hottest the known, and Deplis was unable to take 45 afternoon unless clothed up to the collar-bone in a substantial bathing t. Later th e authorities of Bergamo conceived the idea that salt water might be injurious to masterpiece, and a perpetual injunctions was obtained which debarred the muchly commercial trav Altogether, he was found him a new range of activities in the ank.tulness, however, ceased abruptly at the Franco- eller from sea bathing under any circumstances fervently thankful when his firm of employers 50 neighbourh ian frontier. An imposing array reminded of the stringent law of official force barred his departure, hic and he was sternly and forbids the exportation of Italian works of art. A diplomatic parley ensued between the Luxemburgian and Italian Governments, at one time the European situation became overcast with the possibilities ofrb the n an 55 the Italian Government stood firm; it declined to fortunes or even the existence of Henri Deplis, commercial traveller, but was imm its decision that the Fall of Icarus (by the fate Pincini, Andreas) a the municipality of Bergamo, should not leave the country concern itself in the least with the t present the prop erty of Meanwhile, the not surprising that he drifted into th escorted to the frontier as a dangerous and undesirable foreigner, buth brought back as the Fall of Icarus (attributed to Pincini, Andreas, early Twentieth Century And then one day, at an anarchist congress at Genoa, a fellow-worker, in the heat of debate, broke a phial full of corrosive liquid over his back. The red shirt that he was wearing mitigated10 the effects, but the Icarus was ruined be severely reprimanded for assaulting a fellow-anarchist and received seven year imprisonment for defacing a national art treasure. As soon as he was able to leave the hospital Henri Deplis was put across the frontier as an undesirable alien. unhappy human background fared no better than before, and it was e ranks of Italian anarchists. Four times 60 at least he was 65 yond recognition. His assailant was "In the quieter streets of Paris, especially in the neighbourhood of the Ministry of Fine 70 Arts, you may sometimes meet a depressed, anxious-looking man, who, if you pass him the time of day, will answer you with a slight Luxemburgian accent. He nurses the illusion that he is one of the lost arms of the Venus de Milo,! and hopes that the French Government may be persuaded to buy him. On all other subjects I believe he is tolerably sane

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4. (1) Henri Deplis feels the tattoo is a curse to him as he feels relieved on leaving to Rome where people would not focus on his identity or his tattoo.

5. (2) Henri Depli felt powerless when he was barred from departure. His fortune or even his existence didn't matter to the officials.

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