spaccapietre

Updated: July 1, 2026

Now, when she stumbled on the horrors of the world, she would cry to herself, 'God knows! with a catching breath, and the feeling of a child that runs from darkness to protecting arms; and so escape her pain. Presently she came to sit by Eleanor again, trying to amuse her by the account of a talk on the roadside, with an old spaccapietre, or stone-breaker, who had fought at Mentana.

Mrs. Humphry Ward - Eleanor