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Title: Casa Braccio, Volumes 1 and 2 (of 2)

Author: F. Marion Crawford

Illustrator: A. Castaigne

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CASA BRACCIO

[Illustration: Emblem]

[Illustration: "He looked at her long and sadly."--Vol. I., p. 239.]

CASA BRACCIO

BY

F. MARION CRAWFORD

AUTHOR OF "SARACINESCA," "PIETRO GHISLERI," ETC.

IN TWO VOLUMES

VOL. I.

_WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY A. CASTAIGNE_

=New York=
MACMILLAN AND CO.
AND LONDON
1895

_All rights reserved_

COPYRIGHT, 1894,

BY F. MARION CRAWFORD.

=Norwood Press=
J. S. Cushing & Co.--Berwick & Smith
Norwood Mass. U.S.A.

THIS STORY, BEING MY TWENTY-FIFTH NOVEL,
IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED TO
MY WIFE

SORRENTO, 1895

CONTENTS.

PART I.
SISTER MARIA ADDOLORATA 1

PART II.
GLORIA DALRYMPLE 225

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

VOL. I.

PAGE

Nanna and Annetta 15

Maria Addolorata 25

"Sor Tommaso was lying motionless" 78

"She had covered her face with the veil" 126

"An evil death on you!" 218

"He looked at her long and sadly" 239

"Fire and sleet and candle-light;
And Christ receive thy soul" 324

PART I.

_SISTER MARIA ADDOLORATA._

CASA BRACCIO.

PART I.

_SISTER MARIA ADDOLORATA._

CHAPTER I.

SUBIACO lies beyond Tivoli, southeast from Rome, at t