Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Carlotta's Intended
A row of little black-eyed dagoes of various ages and sexes, of various degrees of beauty, but all handsome; a healthy, picturesque, noisy lot, quarrelsome without pugnacity - these were the little Di Carlos.
A small square front room, with a low shed around its two sides over the banquette, an oyster counter along its partition-wall; a fruit-stand spread beneath its sheds opening on two streets; a red lantern hung out at the corner for a sign see the mercantile house of Di Carlo.
Within a front corner of the shop in winter, and out on the banquette in summer, his chair placed so as to command a view of the fruit shelves on both sides, sat a one-legged cobbler, surrounded by his professional litter of old shoes, strings, and scraps of leather.
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