Frescoes, Etc; Dramatic Sketches (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 Excerpt: ...tread. Enter Ipswich. Ipswich. Ten thousand pardons if I've seemed ages, but your people were right down at the end of Via S. Basilio. Princess. Thanks. I must be off.. I've got the Japanese Legation to breakfast, and it's one o'clock now. Ipswich. Let me go to the gates with you. (Aside to the Princess) Is that your great artist? What a beautiful creature? Princess. You shouldn't say so to me, as she is the precise opposite of everything I am I But she is very Exit from, the alley; Mme. Gxyon a little behind the Princess and Ipswich. Scene II. Drawing-room, Palazzo Sanfriano. Present: The Princess, Mme. Glton, Ladt Cowep, Marchesa Zanzini, Ipswich, various minor personages. It is six o'clock. Tea on a gueridon. Lady Cowes (whispering to Marchesa Zanzini). Such a dear creature, the Princess; but she always does know such queer people Marchesa. Who you mean? La Glyon? Oh, but an artist, you know--that excuse everything Lady Cowes. In a studio, perhaps. Not in a drawing-room. Marchesa (laughing). Ah, you dear English You are always so ironed--I mean, so starched For me, I care for my own house; but I care not who I meet other people's. Lady Cowes. But the Princess introduces her Marchesa. What if she do? The new woman must call first. You not return her card. That very simple. Everything stop there. Lady Cowes. But the Princess would never forgive it Marchesa (stolidly). Pooh What matter what a little bastarda American like or no like? Lady Cowes (shocked). Oh, dearest Marchesa Indeed, indeed, the poor Princess was not--was not what you say. She was nobody, indeed; but I am sure her parents were quite respectable, and very rich. Indeed, my son, when he was fishing in Canada, dined with them Marchesa (shaking with laughing). Ah, ha and the dinner is ...