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Italian backgrounds (1907)

Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 · New York : Charles Scrinber's Sons · leaf 56

An illustration from Italian backgrounds, 1907, leaf 56
urt-yard of the hotel,where a fountain tinkles refreshinglj^ and the un-bleached awnings flap in the breeze of the electricfans, it is pleasant to feel that the Victory and thepictures are close at hand, like old friends w^aiting onones inclination; but if one ventures forth, let it berather to the… … A MIDSUMMER WEEKS DREAM we entered the cathedral its vast aisles were empty,but far off, in the dimness of the pillared choir, weheard a drone of intoning canons that freshened theair like the sound of a water-fall in a forest. Thencewe wandered on to San Francesco, empty too, where,in the…

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