File:Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna (1877) (14590228697).jpg

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Title: Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stieler, Karl, 1842-1885 Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana, Antonio, conte, 1843-1913, former owner. IU-R Paulus, Eduard, 1837-1907 Kaden, Woldemar, 1838-1907 Trollope, Frances Eleanor, d. 1913 Trollope, Thomas Adolphus, 1810-1892
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Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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! Behind her stands a young gentle-man of the first Parisian society, who certainly if he be not a minor has only just ceased tobe one ; but who would cavil about a week or two with a person who can lose fifteenthousand francs in half an hour ? Fifteen times running the young Vicomte has set athousand franc note on number seventeen, (it is whispered that that number represents alucky day in his, not very ancient, history,) and fifteen times running has the croupierraked up the crisp white note with its blue letters as if it were a mere worthless scrap of 136 ITALY. paper. A sort of shiver ran through the crowd at last; they were touched on a tenderpoint,—the love of gain. But the young Vicomte went out sullenly by himself on to themarble terrace where the throng of careless non-gambling visitors was assembled underrose-bowers and orange-trees. What will the noble father of this hopeful aristocrat saywhen he receives the young gentlemans next letter ? This had been a good evening for
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MENTONE. the bank ; only one of all the players won constantly : he was a repulsive looking manwho persistently staked his silver five-franc piece (the lowest stake allowed) and receivedgold napoleons in exchange for it. Each of the buildings which flank the Casino contains a magnificent Cafe got up inthe highest style of Parisian luxury, with wide doorways, columns, carpets, mirrors, etc.,etc., of the costliest kind. There are single tables surrounded by elegant screens, so as toshut off select parties from the profane vulgar, and only leave room for the entrance of thegarrjou with the champagne. From behind these screens is heard the laughter of silveryvoices and the rustling of silken dresses ; possibly the party numbers among it someelegant leaders of Parisian ton, ladies who have their box at the Italiens/ and drivemagnificent equipages in the Bois de Boulogne. They are gay despite their losses at the

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