name."--Vol. II., p.
331.]

CASA BRACCIO

BY

F. MARION CRAWFORD

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

IN TWO VOLUMES

VOL. II.

_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.

CONTENTS.

PART II.--_Continued._
GLORIA DALRYMPLE 1

PART III.
DONNA FRANCESCA CAMPODONICO 227

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

VOL. II.

PAGE
"Gloria--forgive me!" 50

Stefanone and Gloria 100

"The horror of poverty smote him" 123

"Let us not speak of the dead" 203

"The last great, true note died away" 219

"As he stood there repeating the name" 331

Part II.--_Continued._

_GLORIA DALRYMPLE._

CASA BRACCIO.

PART II.--_Continued._

_GLORIA DALRYMPLE._

CHAPTER XXIV.

DURING the first few months of their marriage Reanda and Gloria believed
themselves happy, and really were, since there is no true criterion of
man's happiness but his own belief in it. They took a small furnished
apartment at the corner of the Macel de' Corvi, with an iron balcony
overlooking the Forum of Trajan. They would have had no difficulty in
obtaining other rooms adjoining the two Reanda had so long occupied in
the Palazzetto Borgia, but Gloria was opposed to the arrangement, and
Reanda did not insist upon it. The Forum of Trajan was within a
convenient distance of the palace, and he went daily to his work.

"Besides," said Gloria, "you will not always be painting frescoes for
Donna Francesca. I want you to paint a great picture, and send it to
Paris and get a medal."

She was ambitious for him, and dreamed of his winning world-wide fame.
She loved him, and she felt that Francesca had caged him, as Francesca
herself had once felt. She wished to remove him altogether from the
latter's influence, both because she was frankly jealous of his
friendship for the older woman, and wished to have him quite to herself,
and also in the belief tha