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Don Orsino
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Title: Don Orsino
Author: F. Marion Crawford
Release Date: August 19, 2004 [EBook #13218]
Language: English
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DON ORSINO
BY
F. MARION CRAWFORD
AUTHOR OF "THE THREE FATES," "ZOROASTER," "DR. CLAUDIUS," "SARACINESCA," ETC.
NEW YORK GROSSET & DUNLAP PUBLISHERS
1891, MACMILLAN AND CO.
Reprinted January, April, December, 1893; June, 1894; January, November, 1895; June, 1896, January, 1898, June, 1899; July, 1901 June, 1903; June, 1905; January, 1907.
_Fifty-sixth Thousand_
Norwood Press J.S. Cushing & Co.--Berwick & Smith Norwood Mass. U.S.A.
CHAPTER I.
Don Orsino Saracinesca is of the younger age and lives in the younger Rome, with his father and mother, under the roof of the vast old palace which has sheltered so many hundreds of Saracinesca in peace and war, but which has rarely in the course of the centuries been the home of three generations at once during one and twenty years.
The lover of