<link href="css/hmh.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/> <meta content="urn:uuid:4fd1740f-b377-49ff-ba1f-900eb50b813e" name="Adept.expected.resource"/> </head> <body> <h1 class="chaptertitle"><a id="p15"/> 13. Dalla Piccola Says He Is Not Dalla Piccola</h1> <p class="right XPARA3">5th April 1897</p> <p class="left XPARA3">This morning I awoke in my own bed and dressed myself, adding that touch of makeup my character requires. Then I went to read your diary, where you say you met Abbé Dalla Piccola, and you describe him as certainly being older than me and, what is more, hunchbacked. I went to look at myself in the mirror of your room—in mine there is no mirror, as is appropriate for a priest—and, without wishing to indulge in vanity, I can only say that my features are regular, I am surely not squint-eyed, and my teeth do not protrude. And I have a fine French accent with, if anything, a bit of an Italian inflection.</p> <p class="follow XPARA3">So who then is the abbé with my name whom you met? And at this point, who am I?</p> </body> </html>