A VENETIAN JUNE
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_By Anna Fuller_
A Literary Courtship A Venetian June Peak and Prairie Pratt Portraits Later Pratt Portraits One of the Pilgrims Katherine Day A Bookful of Girls
The Thunderhead Lady By Anna Fuller and Brian Read
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A VENETIAN JUNE
by
ANNA FULLER
With 16 Illustrations in Color by Frederick S. Coburn
[Illustration: "May watched the yacht until it disappeared from sight"]
New York & London G. P. Putnam's Sons The Knickerbocker Press
Copyright, 1896 by G. P. Putnam's Sons
Copyright, 1913 by G. P. Putnam's Sons
23d Printing
The Knickerbocker Press, New York
To
ELENA
If from the flower of thy perfect gift One drop of cordial be distilled, 'tis thine.
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE
I.--VENICE 3
II.--A VENETIAN THOROUGHFARE 13
III.--A PAIR OF POLLYS 25
IV.--A REVERIE 37
V.--THE SIGNORA 49
VI.--A FESTA 65
VII.--GATHERING POPPIES 87
VIII.--THE PULSE OF THE SEA 109
IX.--BY-WAYS OF VENICE 129
X.--A BENEDICTION 145
XI.--AT TORCELLO 163
XII.--A PROMOTION 179
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: A Venetian June by Anna Fuller
- 2: Leaning against the iron railing
- 3: Sitting enthroned among the gondola cushions
- 4: Gazing idly at the approaching gondola
- 5: The gondola quietly glided out again upon the Grand Canal
- 6: And the gondola moved very slowly up stream
- 7: While Vittorio swiftly rounded it
- 8: Was enjoying the freedom of the gondola
- 9: He said Over yonder is Sant' Elisabetta del Lido
- 10: Big Polly and little Polly he called them
- 11: You know Signor Firenzo told me my voice was bellissima
- 12: To morrow was the twenty ninth of the month
- 13: And Pauline discovered that the noise was very fatiguing
- 14: As they retreated into an angle of the gallery
- 15: The lady of his evening reverie
- 16: She has been studying with Firenzo in Rome
- 17: Guiltily conscious that he had evaded the subject of Geof
- 18: He knew the Signora was great friends with her son
- 19: Daymond had not only borrowed the two girls
- 20: The gondola isn't very much by itself
- 21: Secure in his possession of Vittorio
- 22: If Vittorio is not able to row
- 23: Where a gondola lurked in the shadow
- 24: VIIGathering Poppies This is Vittorio's gondola
- 25: I wish Vittorio would get well
- 26: But Nanni was again intent upon his work
- 27: I always like poking about in the Giudecca
- 28: May saw another gondola coming up astern
- 29: Kenwick used to come to see my sisters
- 30: Was examining Kenwick's sketch
- 31: Kenwick makes so little impression
- 32: Attached himself ostensibly to the Daymond party
- 33: She espied the Daymond sea horse on its blue ground
- 34: Daymond and Pauline watched the little drama rather absently
- 35: I could not go with him because of Geof
- 36: And Geof lifted the canvas from its iron rods
- 37: When Geof asked abruptly How did you like it
- 38: And never a San Giorgio did we find
- 39: While Oliver Kenwick would have made very little impression
- 40: Kenwick tried her two years ago
- 41: As often as Kenwick gave her the chance
- 42: Pietro and the gondola were in gala costume
- 43: Priests and choristers in their gay vestments
- 44: Stepped across the intervening gondola
- 45: That Geoffry Daymond's hat was lifted
- 46: Vittorio was both gay and communicative
- 47: And the city was hidden behind the Giudecca
- 48: Or else they should receive niente
- 49: She found herself face to face with Geoffry Daymond
- 50: In the intervals of conversation Kenwick
- 51: Kenwick was brought face to face with her
- 52: Kenwick took the little ruse kindly
- 53: But what I don't understand is Geof
- 54: Slumbering at that moment on the floor of his gondola
- 55: Geof was swimming in the Adriatic
- 56: Just as Geof arrived upon the scene
- 57: Geoffry Daymond was by nature modest
- 58: Kenwick declared in his most humorous manner
- 59: There's nothing melodramatic in that
- 60: And Kenwick was nothing if not fastidious
- 61: I like that idea about the gondolas
- 62: That Geof was being very hardly used
- 63: Lace trimmed parasol over the small black head
- 64: Had he been mistaken about Geof
- 65: Venice will never be the same to me again
- 66: To invest the mythical Oliver Kenwick
- 67: As Vittorio so picturesquely expressed it
- 68: Vittorio said a few words in dialect
- 69: For Pauline had gone again to Torcello
- 70: To carry the roses to the Signora Canti
- 71: With her eyes on a level with the balustrade
- 72: She had always meant to buy a sulphur shawl
- 73: She followed him out upon the balcony
- 74: Which Vittorio thought peccato
- 75: Somebody called for Gordigiani's O Santissima Vergine
- 76: The last words Dolce patria e il cor con te
- 77: And now the gondola was approaching San Lazzaro
- 78: While the gondola rounded San Lazzaro and turned toward home
- 79: It was as if Pauline must understand
- 80: Daymond meant when he said he had had a talk with Nanni
- 81: If Geoffry Daymond told you that
- 82: He laid the tress back upon the pillow
- 83: As they looked out from the shelter of the felze
- 84: Which caused Pauline to smile contentedly
- 85: Daymond came forward and took both Pauline's hands
- 86: The felze was arranged for three
- 87: Neither Geoffry nor Pauline was disposed to talk
