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Updated: June 12, 2025
Aloft there, beyond the pass, the kingdom of Corsica broke on our view, laid out in wide prospect; the distant glittering peaks of Monte d'Oro and Monte Rotondo, the forests hitched on their shoulders like green mantles, the creased valleys leading down their rivers to the shore; a magic kingdom ringed with a sea of iris blue; a kingdom bequeathed to me.
Edith, who could not sleep since the advent of the pilot, made an early toilet and climbed to the bridge, whence she had a magnificent view of the sunrise over the beautiful city that stands on the Conca d'Oro, or Golden Shell the smiling and luxuriant plain that seems to be provided by Nature for man's habitation.
And now, installed in her own sumptuously fitted rooms in the Palazzo d'Oro, Morgana's Sicilian paradise, she almost forgot there was such a thing as poverty, or the sordid business of "making both ends meet."
I am Master of the World!" A brilliant morning broke over the flower-filled gardens of the Palazzo d'Oro, and the sea, stretched out in a wide radiance of purest blue shimmered with millions of tiny silver ripples brushed on its surface by a light wind as delicate as a bird's wing.
Aunt Kathryn deigned to ask, as if in delayed answer to the Chauffeulier's question, when he helped her out of the car at the Stella d'Oro, where we were to lunch. "A week," said Mr. Barrymore, his eyes twinkling. Her face fell, and he took pity. "If we weren't motor maniacs," he went on.
'I don't suppose it will interest you, she said in an off-hand tone, her eyes still intent on the crowd, 'but I got a letter this morning from a young man who is stopping at the Sole d'Oro in Riva a very rude letter, I thought. He whirled about. 'You know!
His evenings he devoted to gambling and to calls in a spirit of generous festivity upon the peyne d'oro girls in the more remote side-streets of the town. But he, too, was a discreet man. Those of us whom business or curiosity took to Sulaco in these years before the first advent of the railway can remember the steadying effect of the San Tome mine upon the life of that remote province.
The finding of his name among the birth records of the nobles of Venice, the registration witnessed by the three solemn Avvogadori, those officers of the law whose rulings in their department were inexorable, the act of confirmation before the Imperial Senate, whither, in grave procession, they immediately fared, preceded by the sacred "Libro d'Oro," upon which the oath of allegiance was sworn with bended knee the ceremony was soon over, and Marcantonio stood enrolled among the ruling body of the great Republic.
He started to run to the Palazzo d'Oro to give the alarm but was held back held by an indescribable force which he was powerless to resist. He struggled with all his might, uselessly. "Morganna!" he cried in a desperate voice "Morganna!" Running down to the edge of the sea he gazed across it and up to the wonderful sky through which the moon rolled lazily like a silver ball.
At the same time, the shallowness of Sansovino's inspiration as a sculptor is patent in his masterpieces of parade the "Neptune" and the "Mars," guarding the Scala d'Oro. Separated from the architecture of the court and staircase, they are insignificant in spite of their colossal scale.
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