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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt: ...his father's cousin, to relent in his attitude towards certain long-outstanding debts. This part of the plan failed; there was a sale, a scandal, and the penniless couple lived for a time in absolute retirement, no one knew, or cared, where. Cavaleone at last got a very small position as clerk in some big warehouse, and it was then that he brought his little wife to the via del Violino. At first they lived fairly comfortably, for naturally a Cavaleone had always a small amount of credit, and Carrie had the virtues as well as the faults of her class. She was a tidy little housekeeper. The old rooms were in themselves beautiful, and she loved the loggia with its twisted pillars. Giulio worked, and for a wonder his love lasted. At the end of two years a baby was born and he gave her the beautiful historical name of her family--Beatrice. Then, Carrie began to die. It took her two years to die, but she was happy to the end, and he always thanked the saints, in whom his belief was as undoubting as a child's, that his accident did not happen while she was there to be hurt by it. Beechy was two when they brought her father home limp and white after a misstep in the darkness of the warehouse and a little fall of not more than two feet. He never walked again, and the Commendatore, the only one of his former friends who still came to see him, went, as has been told, to the old prince and persuaded him that as Principe Cavaleone he could not allow his second cousin to die of starvation. So this is how it all happened. Whatever there is in the theory of heredity, it must at least be admitted that it does not fall to many to come of a princely Roman stock on one side, and of small dissenting Cockney shopkeepers on the other. In after life Beechy often wondered what had i...
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- VerlagRareBooksClub.com
- Erscheinungsdatum2012
- ISBN 10 1150651008
- ISBN 13 9781150651007
- EinbandTapa blanda
- Anzahl der Seiten98
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