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Title: The country of The ring and the book
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Treves, Frederick, Sir, 1853-1923
Subjects: Browning, Robert, 1812-1889
Publisher: London : Cassell
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Franceschini was a whitedsepulchre, a palace of penury, as empty as a cavernand as cheerless. There were constant squabbles and brawls, alter-cations that ended in the slamming of doors, and dis-putes that were concluded by the throwing of thingsout of window. Moreover, the members of this dis-tinguished family on occasion struck one another. Amaid-servant who had displayed a partisan spirit waskicked at least twice, while neighbours had heard,through open windows, the sound of a slap on theface, followed by a like sound extracted apparently fromanother face. It was left to one, Angelica Battista, aged thirty-five,fully to illumine the Franceschini menage. She laid openthe entire palace, from attic to cellar, as if it had beena dolls house with a hinged front that could be operatedlike the door of a cupboard. Angelica was once adomestic servant in the Franceschini employ. As shehad been dismissed with abruptness and ignominy, andhad been both struck and kicked by her master and 2<4
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Palace Life at Arezzo mistress at the moment of her departure, she may havebeen prejudiced against the family. She testified, when the occasion came, that the Fran-ceschini had treated their visitors not only with rudenessbut with brutality. Guido had called his mother-in-law a u slut ; Signora Beatrice had warned Angelicaagainst the Comparini and had commanded her torender them no service. Once when Violante was ill, and needed to be unlaced M and to have vinegar and otherrestoratives given her, Angelica was forbidden to affordher any assistance, although the poor lady was very coldand, indeed, nearly dead. Moreover, she was for-bidden to light poor Pietro up the stairs when hereturned to the palace late at night. This was a cruelinjunction, because a wide staircase that flits abruptlyto the right and the left in the black abyss of an un-familiar house is a very puzzling object to a frequenter oftaverns who is on his way to bed. Once, indeed, Pietro,in stumbling blindly up these stai

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