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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Aurora the Magnificent, by Gertrude Hall This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Aurora the Magnificent Author: Gertrude Hall Release Date: December 10, 2009 [EBook #30642] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AURORA THE MAGNIFICENT *** Produced by Roger Frank and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net [Illustration: Alone in her room later ... she looked at the other portrait] AURORA THE MAGNIFICENT BY GERTRUDE HALL AUTHOR OF "THE TRUTH ABOUT CAMILLA," "THE UNKNOWN QUANTITY," ETC. ILLUSTRATED BY GERALD LEAKE NEW YORK THE CENTURY CO. 1917 Copyright, 1916, 1917, by The Century Co. Published, March, 1917 TO MY SISTER GRACE WITHOUT WHOM THIS BOOK WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN. AND TO MY DEAR HELEN R----, WITHOUT WHOM IT WOULD HAVE BEEN DIFFERENT LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Alone in her room later ... she looked at the other portrait Frontispiece FACING PAGE After it she still stood a moment, looking toward the sanctuary 20 "I thought," said Mrs. Hawthorne, "that you were going to come and take us sight-seeing" 82 Aurora, clasping her hands in a delight that could find no words to express it, made a sound like the coo of a dove 200 Gerald turned, and beheld that lady 272 Aurora's eyes, fixed and starry, rested upon the little flame 290 Aurora, with a comedy of pride, threw up her chin, lifted her arms, and turned as if on a pivot 316 "Come, let us reason together, Aurora" 384 AURORA THE MAGNIFICENT CHAPTER I Near sunset, one day in early October, not too long ago for some of us to remember with distinctness, Mr. Foss, United States consul at Florence, Italy, took a cab, as on other days, to the Porta Romana. Here, where the out-of-town tariff comes into effect, he paid his man, and set out to walk the rest of the wa
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