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Christopher and Columbus, by Countess
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Title: Christopher and Columbus
Author: Countess Elizabeth Von Arnim
Release Date: January 10, 2005 [eBook #14646]
Language: English
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CHRISTOPHER AND COLUMBUS
By the Author of Elizabeth and Her German Garden
Frontispiece by Arthur Litle
Garden City New York Doubleday, Page & Company
1919
[Illustration: "Oh, yes. You're both very fond of me," said Mr. Twist, pulling his mouth into a crooked and unhappy smile.
"We love you." said Anna-Felicitas simply.]
CHAPTER I
Their names were really Anna-Rose and Anna-Felicitas; but they decided, as they sat huddled together in a corner of the second-class deck of the American liner St. Luke, and watched the dirty water of the Mersey slipping past and the Liverpool landing-stage disappearing into mist, and felt that it was comfortless and cold, and knew they hadn't got a father or a mother, and remembered that they were aliens, an