Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 76
y through the massesof people in the plaza up the steps of the greatcathedral. It was a cold bright day. Since dawn thepeasants from the neighboring provinces hadbeen pouring into the city. Few of the higher 1898] IN OLD FLORENCE. class of Italians were to be seen, but manyAmericans and English… … places. Close to these amused spectators in plaiting away at the straw braid wound in atheir London-made coats and gowns, pressed ball which hung and joggled like a live thingpale old women from the Apennine Mountains, in front of them. There were smart Italian 592 IN OLD FLORENCE. [May, soldiers…
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