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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. AL FRESCO. ATURDAY dawned as lovely a morning as the founders of the feast could possibly have wished it. It was a day to order. Not a touch of mistral embittered the air. The sea shone liquid blue, with scarcely a ripple dimpling its surface; the great gray peaks loomed clear and distinct in hard outline against a solid blue firmament. It is only on the Eiviera that you get that perfect defi- uiteness and contrast of colour. Everything looked sharp as in an early Italian picture, with an early Italian sky of uniform hue to throw up and intensify the infinite jags and tatters of the mountain profile. At ten sharp the first arrivals began to greet one another with shouts of derision on the road by the station. Thistleton and Gascoyne were among the earliest on the scene. Punctuality, the blonde young man remarked, was one of his companion's most hopeless failings. As they trotted up upon their mettlesome steeds?Paul's more mettlesome, in fact, than was either seemly or agreeable? they found Armitage with four ladies in tow drawn up in a hollow square to receive them. Boys with the provisions stood expectant at the side, and Paul noticed with a distinct tinge of awe that from cue of the baskets several necks ofbottles protruded, wired and tied, and covered with gold or silver tissue. Then the picnic would actually run to champagne What unbridled luxury The golden-haired Penn- sylvanian must, indeed, as Thistleton had declared, be rich as Pactolus A stern sense of duty induced Paul to look around the group for that interesting personage. Unaccustomed to society as he was, and in the awkward position of being introduced from the back of a restive donkey, he was at first aware merely of a fiery heat in his own red face and a confused blurr of four perfectly una...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217103411 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217103413 |
| Weight | 1.04 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.72 In |
| List Price | $21.89 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 320 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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