books.google.com - "This is my only story. Now that I am sixty I can tell it." He, the narrator, was a twenty-one-year-old art student traveling the world. She was a countess -- apparently cold, haughty, and inaccessible -- traveling with Haroun, her ambiguous companion. When the young man makes their acquaintance at a...http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Stranger_at_the_Palazzo_d_Oro_and_Ot.html?id=gbStu-wg1dIC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Stranger at the Palazzo d'Oro and Other Stories