Capitolo 1
THE DONNA CHE DID
from
Grant Allen
1895
TO MINE DEAR WIFE
TO WHO I HAVE DEVOTED MY TWENTY HAPPIER YEARS
I ALSO DEVOTE
THIS BREVE NOTE OF A LESS FORTUNATE LOVE
WRITTEN AT PERUGIA
Spring 1893
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE
ENTIRELY IT IS TO ONLY SATISFY
MY REALLY TASTE
AND MY HIS/HER OWN CONSCIENCE
PREFACE
"But any woman would certainly dare never to do so", you/he/she said my friend.
"I knew a woman that did", it said me; "and this is his/her history."
ME.
The lawn of Mrs. Dewsbury was contained from that in that they knew him/it the loveliest
Carriage. The smoothed one and elastic sward in front of which you/they have extended
the house was all compotes of a small yellow clover. It gave
under of the foot as the pole on velvet. The fixed look of one looked before
from him on the middle distances and without end of the oak-dressed Weald,
with the blue and uncertain line of the Southern Feathers in the background.
You ripples behind crest, the long one that low hills of limestone of paludina have sustained
out in following file, each thrown above against his/her neighbor by the
misty haze that he/she eternally broods on the wooded valley; up to,
erring through all of them, the eye finally remained on the breeding
scarp of Ring of Chanctonbury, weakly pencilled on the outline of furthest.
Shady ghosts of weak heights framed the east limit and
west. Alan Merrick drank him/it in with deep satisfaction. Later
those acute and clear contours of Italian, hard as lazuli of the pencil,
the mysterious vagueness, the the allusive being pregnant of ours
Scenery English strikes the imagination; and Alan was at fresh home
from a turn of beginning in summer among the solidities of Peruginesque of the
Umbrian Apennines. "As beautiful it is everything, later everything, he said,
turning to his/her entertainer. "In Italy 'the tis I break down him/it the
painter indulges on; in England, we seem rather to the middle ones
distance."
Mrs. Dewsbury cast the eye you round off him without rest of a hostess, to
sees on who she could socially give him/it. "Oh, comes this way,"