A Siren
Thomas Adolphus Trollope · English
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A Siren
Thomas Adolphus Trollope · English
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BOOK I Ash Wednesday Morning CHAPTER I The Last Night of Carnival It was Carnival time in the ancient and once imperial, but now provincial and remote, city of Ravenna. It was Carnival time, and the very acme and high-tide of that season of mirth and revel. For the theory of Carnival observance is, that the life of it, unlike that of most other things and beings, is intensified with a constantly crescendo movement up to the last minutes of its existence. And there now remained but an h
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