Frau von Sigmundskron was not really much past middle age, though the
people in the village generally called her the old baroness. Her hair
was very white and she was thin and pale; her bold features, almost
emaciated, displayed the framework of departed beauty, and if her high
white fore ...
The Baroness Volterra drove to the Palazzo Conti in the heart of Rome
at nine o'clock in the morning, to be sure of finding Donna Clementina
at home. She had tried twice to telephone, on the previous afternoon,
but the central office had answered that "the communication was
interrupted." ...
Two years of service in the Zouaves had wrought a change in
Anastase Gouache, the painter. He was still a light man, nervously
built, with small hands and feet, and a delicate face; but
constant exposure to the weather had browned his skin, and a life
of unceasing activity had strengthene ...
A great multitude of people filled the church, crowded together in the
old black pews, standing closely thronged in the nave and aisles,
pressing shoulder to shoulder even in the two chapels on the right and
left of the apse, a vast gathering of pale men and women whose eyes
were sad and in who ...