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Excerpt from The Magic of Rome
Now the blinds of the drawing-room were jerked by a serving-maid, and then presently the Marchesa di Sant Angioli awoke with a sigh on her lace pillow and peered between the four posters at the bronze clock a Mercury. Held on the mantelpiece of Carrara' marbler It was her boast that her maid had never found her sleeping, and while she sipped coffee and wondered at the coming day, Padre Buonavoglio th'r'ew open his balcony window and whispered a short prayer, seem ingly to the stable roof rather than to heaven, for the beauty of God's morning had no private word for him, and if he rose early and exercised his devotions on the balcony it was more because it behoved a priest than because he enjoyed it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.
