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Strona 2
... Prince had pointed out La Tonietta at the Pincio one afternoon . She was one of the few demi - mondaines that the higher - class society of Rome took an interest in . For a month or so the rich Englishman to whom she owed her means had ...
... Prince had pointed out La Tonietta at the Pincio one afternoon . She was one of the few demi - mondaines that the higher - class society of Rome took an interest in . For a month or so the rich Englishman to whom she owed her means had ...
Strona 7
... Prince's clothes were stained . ― " Quick , quick ! " repeated Victorine in an undertone after lowering the lamp and moving it around . " The porter isn't there - he's always at the carpenter's next door and you see that he hasn't yet ...
... Prince's clothes were stained . ― " Quick , quick ! " repeated Victorine in an undertone after lowering the lamp and moving it around . " The porter isn't there - he's always at the carpenter's next door and you see that he hasn't yet ...
Strona 13
... Prince would at the utmost have to spend three weeks in bed , and no complications were to be feared . Then , like all the doctors of Rome , enamoured of the fine thrusts and cuts which day by day they have to dress among chance ...
... Prince would at the utmost have to spend three weeks in bed , and no complications were to be feared . Then , like all the doctors of Rome , enamoured of the fine thrusts and cuts which day by day they have to dress among chance ...
Strona 14
... Prince , " it's useless for people to know of this . It's so ridiculous . Nobody has seen anything , it seems , excepting Mon- sieur l'Abbé , whom I ask to keep the matter secret . And in particular I don't want anybody to alarm the ...
... Prince , " it's useless for people to know of this . It's so ridiculous . Nobody has seen anything , it seems , excepting Mon- sieur l'Abbé , whom I ask to keep the matter secret . And in particular I don't want anybody to alarm the ...
Strona 15
... Prince to take the empty cup from him , she said in a low voice : " There's a girl , Mon- sieur , La Pierina , who comes here every day , crying and asking for news of you . I can't get rid of her , she's always prowling about the place ...
... Prince to take the empty cup from him , she said in a low voice : " There's a girl , Mon- sieur , La Pierina , who comes here every day , crying and asking for news of you . I can't get rid of her , she's always prowling about the place ...
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Abbé amidst ancient arms asked basket beautiful Benedetta Cardinal Boccanera Cardinal Sanguinetti Cardinal Secretary cassock Catholicism Celia Church Congregation Contessina Dario dear death desire divine Don Vigilio Donna Serafina door dream Eminence eternal everything exclaimed eyes face faith felt figs Frascati frightful gesture glance hand happy heart Holy Father idea Jesuits lamps laugh Leo XIII looked marriage Monsieur l'Abbé Monsignor Fornaro Monsignor Nani Narcisse never night once palace Palazzo papacy Paparelli passion Peter's Piazza Piazza Navona Pierre Pierre's poison poor Pope Prada prelate Prince quivering realised reign religion remained replied resumed Reverend Eminence Roman Rome ruins Sacco Santobono seemed side Signor Squadra silence smile soon soul sovereign spoke superb Swiss Guard tell thereupon things thought Tiber tion truth turned Vatican Via Giulia Victorine waiting whilst window young Italy young priest
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Strona 284 - Here I am, my Dario, here I am ! " Then came the apogee. Amidst growing exaltation, buoyed up by a blaze of love, careless of glances, candid like a lily, she divested herself of her garments and stood forth so white, that neither marble statue, nor dove, nor snow itself was ever whiter. "Here I am, my Dario, here I am ! " Recoiling almost to the ground as at sight of an apparition, the glorious flash of a holy vision, Pierre and Victorine gazed at her with dazzled eyes. The servant had not stirred...
Strona 276 - Serafina, and lamented that she would not be able to kiss her nephew for the last time if she lingered at the Vatican, the doctor offered to fetch her in his carriage which was waiting below. It would not take him more than twenty minutes, said he, and he would be back in time for the end, should he then be needed. Left to himself in the window recess the Cardinal remained there motionless for another moment. With eyes blurred by tears, he gazed towards heaven. And his quivering arms were suddenly...
Strona 284 - Then came the apogee. Amidst growing exaltation, buoyed up by a blaze of love, careless of glances, candid like a lily, she divested herself of her garments and stood forth so white, that neither marble statue, nor dove, nor snow itself was ever whiter. "Here I am, my Dario, here I am ! " Recoiling almost to the ground as at sight of an apparition, the glorious flash of a holy vision, Pierre and Victorine gazed at her with dazzled eyes. The servant had not stirred to prevent this extraordinary action,...
Strona 286 - ... a second, which seemed an eternity, they clasped one another, she neither repelled nor terrified by the disorder which made him so unrecognisable, but displaying a delirious passion, a holy frenzy as if to pass beyond life, to penetrate with him into the black Unknown. And beneath the shock of the felicity at last offered to him he expired, with his arms yet convulsively wound around her as though indeed to carry her off. Then, whether from grief or from bliss amidst that embrace of death, there...