The Title Market by Emily Post
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stolen--time enough to cross bridges when he came to them. But that
chance was beyond all probability. There was no way for Sansevero ever to secure enough money to get back the picture--unless, indeed, his younger brother Giovanni should marry the great American heiress who was on her way to Italy for the winter. "I hardly think that likely," said the Duke Scorpa to himself, as he stroked his heavy chin with his fat hand, "for I intend to annex that little fortune myself." CHAPTER V DON GIOVANNI ARRIVES It was a few days after Nina's arrival in Italy; one of the glorious mornings when the famous Sansevero gardens were full of golden light, bringing into high relief the creamy marble of statues that in other centuries had been white. Against the deep waxy green of shrubs and hedges, the fountains seemed to be tossing liquid diamonds; and beyond the marble balustrades of the descending terraces, the hills rolled away in soft gray billows of young olive leaves and powdered slopes of blossoming orange branches. In contrast with this background of green and marble and roses and flowers and fountains stood Nina reaching up to pick a pink camellia. In front of her, the princess was looking vaguely into the finder of a camera. |
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