Roman Pictures
Percy Lubbock
Paperback
(Forgotten Books, Aug. 7, 2018)
Excerpt from Roman PicturesHe took it with a brilliant smile, he whipped off his hat and held it to his stomach. Eh, come s'ta he said, standing bare-headed; e pezzo pezzo che non ci vediamo. He fluted the words with mellifluous assur ance, and I did my best to meet his humour with my own poor bits and shreds of Italian. There were no flute notes in my repertory; but I made a jest of my round British style and mouthed out some attempt at a Roman compliment. As quick as thought he countered it with another; and that was surely enough of the joke - the joke of our standing there bare-headed, flourishing our hats at each other with Italian airings; so I let loose my pent-up English talk, after those weeks of unnatural silence, and tumbled out exclamation and question as they came - I was voluble, enjoying the release of the tongue, and there were forty things I wanted to say and hear, for this meeting was quite unexpected and exceed ingly opportune; and so I chattered forth my surprise and pleasure, and then - and then I found them left upon my hands, somehow, and I looked rather a fool.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.