Peter Marchdale, a young author, rents a villa in Lombardy for the summer. He discovers that his landlady is a young woman who he has admired from afar. She is the widow of an Italian duke who was extremely wealthy and Peter is devastated that he feels there is no future for him with the duchessa. However, the duchessa's uncle by marriage, Cardinal Udeschini comes to visit.
Peter Marchdale, a young author, rents a villa in Lombardy for the summer. He discovers that his landlady is a young woman who he has admired from afa...
The coachman drew up his horses before the castle gateway, where their hoofs beat a sort of fanfare on the stone pavement; and the footman, letting himself smartly down, pulled, with a peremptory gesture that was just not quite a swagger, the bronze hand at the end of the dangling bell-cord.
The coachman drew up his horses before the castle gateway, where their hoofs beat a sort of fanfare on the stone pavement; and the footman, letting hi...
This is a charming little love story set in the early years of the Twentieth Century. Susanna, Countess of Sampaolo, a small island off the coast of Italy, believes that a cousin in England is the true Count of Sampaolo and travels incognito to England to confirm her belief. In order to renounce her title and inheritance, Susanna must either enter a convent or marry the new Count. When the cousins meet she decides on the way forward and hopes that her cousin, Anthony, will follow the same path.
This is a charming little love story set in the early years of the Twentieth Century. Susanna, Countess of Sampaolo, a small island off the coast of I...
How it was that I, being so young a man and not a very tactful one, was sent on such an errand is more than I should be able to explain. But many years ago some one came to me with a request that I should go that evening to a certain street at King's Cross, where would be found a poor lady in great distress; that I should take a small sum of money which was given to me for the purpose in a little packet which disguised all appearance of coin, present it to her as a parcel which I had been desired to deliver, and ask if there were any particular service that could be done for her.
How it was that I, being so young a man and not a very tactful one, was sent on such an errand is more than I should be able to explain. But many year...
