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Excerpt from Aline, Vol. 1: An Old Friend's Story
With sprightly grace stepped forth the young Italian, upon the scene - still warbling the last ardent bars of the song he had con cluded and suiting his action to the expressive terms - Mia bene adorata! Or some such high flown nonsense, he encircled with one arm the young wife's waist, and pressed her towards him; bending upon her at the same time a glance which spoke more than acting from the dark eyes, which, when thus turned towards me, I thought the most splendid I had ever beheld. 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.
