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Saracinesca, by F. Marion Crawford
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Title: Saracinesca
Author: F. Marion Crawford
Release Date: October 15, 2004 [EBook #13757]
Language: English
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SARACINESCA
BY F. MARION CRAWFORD
AUTHOR OF 'MR. ISAACS,' 'DR. CLAUDIUS,' 'A ROMAN SINGER,' 'ZOROASTER,' 'A TALE OF A LONELY PARISH,' ETC.
1887
NOTE
It was at first feared that the name Saracinesca, as it is now printed, might be attached to an unused title in the possession of a Roman house. The name was therefore printed with an additional consonant--Sarracinesca--in the pages of 'Blackwood's Magazine.' After careful inquiry, the original spelling is now restored.
CHAPTER I.
In the year 1865 Rome was still in a great measure its old self. It had not then acquired that modern air which is now beginning to pervade it. The Corso had not been widened and whitewashed; the Villa Aldobrandini had not been cut through to make the Via Nazionale; the south wing of the Palazzo Colonna still looked up