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Excerpt from The Witness of the Sun
He is always crying, she said. Dio mio! Fancy trying to make a hero of 'a man who is always as damp as they say the climate of England is! He cries for everything, - absolutely. The fires of love Pouf He could have put them out with a bucket of tears in less than twenty minutes. He a hero! He was an ass. See, here are his ears. Look, signorina, I make his ears! And at this juncture she would hold up the slate with another libellous representation of the celebrated Greek. Ilva was at ten a very tall child, with a figure which, though delicate, was supple and strong as steel. Her hair, of a pale silverish gold, suggestive of moonlight through amber, grew in five well-de fined points above her noble, low brow. Her skin had the clear whiteness of almonds which have been soaked in water. Her eyes, large and lustrous, were the tint of a spring rain-cloud, - that indescribable bluish gray-violet which seems to make blue cold by contrast, gray harsh, and violet sentimental. 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.
