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... Church of St. Lorenzo . One had only to go there to find a complete assortment of tabbies , tortoise - shells , blacks , whites , greys , and every other colour usual to the race of cats . There might be seen old cats , middle- aged ...
... Church of St. Lorenzo . One had only to go there to find a complete assortment of tabbies , tortoise - shells , blacks , whites , greys , and every other colour usual to the race of cats . There might be seen old cats , middle- aged ...
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... church of the Dominicans . Fifty or sixty years ago , English people travelling on the Continent were , for the most part , taken for millionaires , and trusted to any extent . Owing to this great reputation for wealth and liberality ...
... church of the Dominicans . Fifty or sixty years ago , English people travelling on the Continent were , for the most part , taken for millionaires , and trusted to any extent . Owing to this great reputation for wealth and liberality ...
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... churches , and the Palazzo Paciocchi belonging to the daughter of Elise Buonaparte . This palace was full of busts , statues , pictures , and other memorials of Napoleon's family . One cabinet was furnished with the needle- work of ...
... churches , and the Palazzo Paciocchi belonging to the daughter of Elise Buonaparte . This palace was full of busts , statues , pictures , and other memorials of Napoleon's family . One cabinet was furnished with the needle- work of ...
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... church , and here within walls overgrown with ivy containing many a crumbling memorial of old English families long past away , he erected a tomb for himself in black granite which , for some forty years , he never failed to visit when ...
... church , and here within walls overgrown with ivy containing many a crumbling memorial of old English families long past away , he erected a tomb for himself in black granite which , for some forty years , he never failed to visit when ...
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... church , not a single record of a Finderne was there ! He accosted a villager , hoping to glean some stray traditions of the Findernes . " Findernes , " said the rustic , " we have no Findernes here , but we have something that once ...
... church , not a single record of a Finderne was there ! He accosted a villager , hoping to glean some stray traditions of the Findernes . " Findernes , " said the rustic , " we have no Findernes here , but we have something that once ...
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