By the Tiber
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from By the Tiber: By the Author of Signor Monaldini´s Niece Once upon a time, as a royal exile who was visiting Rome rode out with his friends to the chase, they passed a certain rude stone house set in a vineyard. This house had been a sepulchre in ancient × but the dust of the dead was blown away, and the vase which had held it was set in a museum, and the marbles that had adorned it were torn off to ornament the palaces of the living, and over its crumbling foundations had been built a new house wherein dwelt Gigi, the vine-dresser, with his daughter Felicita and her step-mother, Nanna. It was a rough place; but the poppies grew brilliantly all about its foundations, and wall-flowers nodded out of reach above, and an ivy-vine crept up, stone by stone, and draped itself around a small square window set close beside the only remaining skeleton window of the ruin. This window opened on a narrow road of the Agro Romano; and when the chase went by in the early morning, there was a face framed in its cornice of leaves. Felicita looked out at the horsemen, and laughed and blushed when they all looked up at her. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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