Mademoiselle Mori A Tale of Modern Rome Author:Margaret Roberts General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1860 Original Publisher: Ticknor and Fields Subjects: Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Literary Collections / General Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / American / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: T... more »his is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: MADEMOISELLE MORI. CHAPTER I. Thou art in Rome! the city that so long Reigned absolute, the mistress of the world. Rogers. One Sunday evening in October, the English congregation were pouring out of the room which served them as a church, outside the Porta del Popolo. The English season at Rome had just begun. A long file of carriages was waiting, and they successively came up to the door, and drove off, either to various residences, or to the Pincian Hill. The walkers turned into the gardens of Villa Borghese, the gates of which stood invitingly open close at hand; or crossed the Piazza, and fell into the crowd in the three streets branching from it. Some ascended the Pincian Hill, which the Italians, ever dreading the unhealthy hour of sunset, were already leaving; so that there was a double stream of vehicles and foot-passengers, one descending and the other ascending, the winding way. Ample as the road was, it hardly contained the crowds tempted out by the fine afternoon to this charming place, once the Oollis Horlitlorum, and still a region of gardens, as much as in the days of Sallust and Lucretius. If the piazzas and streets below had not been equally crowded, all Rome might have been supposed on the Pincio. Languages from all parts of the world were heard there ; foreigners and natives were blended together. Here, aJpgnificent Armenian...« less