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Excerpt from Tricotrin: The Story of a Waif and StrayMistigri cocked her head on one side, but would not waste time in replying: her little shiny black mouth was full of good kernels.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.

Excerpt from Tricotrin the Story of a Waif and StrayIT was autumn; a rich golden autumn of France, with the glow of burn ing sunsets, and the scarlet pomp Of reddened woods, and the purple and the yellow of grapes gathered for the wine-press, and the luscious dreamy odor Of overripened fruits crushed, by careless passing feet, upon the orchard mosses. Afar Off, in the full noon-day, the winding road was white and hot with dust; but here in a nook of forest-land, in a dell of leafy growth between the vineyards which encompassed it, the air was cool and the sunlight broken with shade, while, through its stillness where the boughs threw the shadow darkest, a little torrent leapt and splashed, making music as it went, and washing round the base of an old ivy-grown stone tower that had fallen to ruin in the midst of its green nest.There was no sound except one, beside that of the bright tumbling stream, though now and then there came in from the distance the ring of a convent clock's bells, or the laugh of a young girl at work among the vines - no sound except one, and that was the quick, sharp, gleeful crack Of nuts in a monkey's teeth. There were squirrels by the score there in that solitary place who had right, hereditary and indisputable they would have said, to all the nuts that the boughs bore and the grasses hid; but Mistigri was no recognizer of rights divine; she loved nuts and cared little how she got them, and she sat aloft in her glory, or swung herself from twig to twig, crushing and eating and flinging the shells away with all that gleeful self-satisfaction of which a little black monkey is to the full as capable, after successful piracy, as any conquering sovereign.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.

Excerpt from Friendship: A StoryThe Misses Moira, of Moira, lived on their own lands in Caithness, were very rich, very ugly, very eccentric, spoke with a strong native accent, and delivered their opinions uncalled for; two of their sister's children were respectively the Duchess of Forfar and the Marquis of Fingal; the younger was the echo of the elder - both wore spectacles, both were deaf; and neither ever forgot that the Moiras, of Craig Moira, had the right to sit before their sovereign, and were allied with half the bluest blood and highest names in Great Britain.They were now about to call on one of their connections, and gazed anxiously through their spectacles for the Castle of Fior delisa, where she dwelt. Fiordelisa came at last in sight, a grey, rambling, and ancient pile, set amidst cypress and ilex woods, with its gardens straying down into its farm-lands in Italian fashion, covering hills and plains with corn and vine and olive.A braw place this, but ill-kept, said the elder Miss Moira, as they entered a dark avenue of ancient oaks, and has tho idolatrous emblems oven at the very gates.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.

Excerpt from The Tower of TaddeoThis tower was rich in all such decoration, and was sometimes called as well the House of the Loves (casa degli Amorini), from the winged children, by Luca della Robbia, which clustered together over its archway, and held aloft the shield of the great family for whom it had been built, a Tuscan branch of those Brancaleone who once were lords of Cesena and Imola.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.

Excerpt from The Tower of TaddeoThis tower was rich in all such decoration, and was sometimes called as well the House of the Loves (casa degli Amorini), from the winged children, by Luca della Robbia, which clustered together over its archway, and held aloft the shield of the great family for whom it had been built, a Tuscan branch of those Brancaleone who once were lords of Cesena and Imola.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.

Excerpt from Tricotrin, Vol. 1 of 3: The Story of a Waif and StrayMistigri cocked her head on one side, but would not waste time in replying: her little shiny black mouth was full of good kernels.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.

Excerpt from The Tower of Taddeo, Vol. 1Had belonged to that age in which men knew so well how to unite the useful and the beautiful, how to harmonize the' lovely with the formidable, and how to use the sports of peace to hide the strength of war. For it had been built by the great builder of its neighbour, the Jeweller's Bridge, and it was called now, as it had been called in the days of its rising, the Tower of Taddeo. Tradition indicated it also as at one time his residence, but this rested only on rumour; that he had been its archi teet the archives of the city proved beyond any doubt. He had built it as he built and painted so much else that was beautiful. Beauty in those days was necessary as air to those men, so much.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.

Excerpt from The Tower of Taddeo, Vol. 1Had belonged to that age in which men knew so well how to unite the useful and the beautiful, how to harmonize the' lovely with the formidable, and how to use the sports of peace to hide the strength of war. For it had been built by the great builder of its neighbour, the Jeweller's Bridge, and it was called now, as it had been called in the days of its rising, the Tower of Taddeo. Tradition indicated it also as at one time his residence, but this rested only on rumour; that he had been its archi teet the archives of the city proved beyond any doubt. He had built it as he built and painted so much else that was beautiful. Beauty in those days was necessary as air to those men, so much.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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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Excerpt from The Tower of Taddeo, Vol. 3 of 3She was a good - hearted woman, but in her manner she permitted herself to be rougher, ruder, more boisterous of late; she did not see why she should not add Violence to her nature, why she should trouble herself to speak softly.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.