Henry Harland: 3 books

Everyone who knew Rome fifteen or twenty years ago must remember Miss Belmont. She lived in the Palazzo Sebastiani, a merry little old Englishwoman, the business, the passion, of whose existence it was to receive. All the rooms of her vast apartment on the piano nobile were arranged as reception-rooms,...

Both of my parents died while I was still a baby; and I passed my childhood at the home of my father's mother in Norwich Town—which lies upon the left bank of the river Yantic, some three miles to the north of Norwich City, in Eastern Connecticut.

BALZATORE, by many coquetries, had long been trying to attract their attention. At last he had succeeded. "You have an admirer," Ruth, with a gleam, remarked to her companion. "Mercy, how he's ogling you." "Yes," answered Lucilla Dor, untroubled, in that contented, caressing...