CECILIA
A Story of Modern Rome
BY
F. MARION CRAWFORD
AUTHOR OF "SARACINESCA," "MARIETTA," "AVE ROMA
IMMORTALIS," ETC.
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD.
1902
All rights reserved
Copyright, 1902,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Set up and electrotyped October, 1902.
Sixteenth Thousand
* NORWOOD PRESS *
J. S. CUSHING & CO. — BERWICK & SMITH
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CECILIA
A STORY OF MODERN ROME
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIV
CHAPTER XV
CHAPTER XVI
CHAPTER XVII
CHAPTER XVIII
CHAPTER XIX
CHAPTER XX
CHAPTER XXI
CHAPTER XXII
CHAPTER XXIII
CHAPTER XXIV
CHAPTER XXV
CHAPTER XXVI
CHAPTER XXVII
CHAPTER XXVIII
WRITINGS OF F. MARION CRAWFORD
CHAPTER I
Two men were sitting side by side on a stone bench in the forgottengarden of the Arcadian Society, in Rome; and it was in early spring, notlong ago. Few people, Romans or strangers, ever find their way to thatlonely and beautiful spot beyond the Tiber, niched in a hollow of theJaniculum below San Pietro in Montorio, where Beatrice Cenci sleeps. TheArcadians were men and women who loved poetry in an artificial time,took names of shepherds and shepherdesses, rhymed as best they could,met in pleasant places to recite their verse