LONDON: JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD
NEW YORK: JOHN LANE COMPANY: MCMX

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Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, London

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CONTENTS

CHAP.		PAGE
I.		9
II.	Gallio	29
III.		107
IV.		147
V.	Through the Horn or theIvory Gate	183
VI.		237

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Καὶ ἔμοιγε δοκεῖτε ἐπὶ λευκάδα πέτρην καὶ δῆμον ὀνείρων καταδαρθέντεςτοσαῦτα ὀνειροπολεῖν ἐν ἀκαρεῖ τῆς νυκτὸς οὔσης.

(Philopatris, xxi.)

And to me it seems that you have fallen asleep upon a white rock, andin a parish of dreams, and have dreamt all this in a moment while itwas night.

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THE WHITE STONE
I

A few Frenchmen, united in friendship, who were spending the spring inRome, were wont to meet amid the ruins of the disinterred Forum. Theywere Joséphin Leclerc, an Embassy Attaché on leave; M. Goubin, licenciéès lettres, an annotator; Nicole Langelier, of the old Parisian familyof the Langeliers, printers and classical scholars; Jean Boilly, acivil engineer, and Hippolyte Dufresne, a man of leisure, and a loverof the fine arts.

Towards five o’clock of the afternoon of the first day of May, theywended their way, as was their custom, through the northern door,closed to the public, where Commendatore Boni, who superintended theexcavations, welcomed them with quiet amenity, and led them to thethreshold of his house of wood nestling in the shadow of laurel bushes,privet hedges

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