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Search - Casa Braccio - Part II

Casa Braccio Part II
Author: F. Marion Crawford

DURING the first few months of their marriage Reanda and Gloria believed themselves happy, and really were, since there is no true criterion of mans happiness but his own belief in it. They took a small furnished apartment at the corner of the Mace1 de Oorvi, with an iron balcony over- looking the Forum of Trajan. They would have had no difficul... more »ty in obtaining other rooms adjoining the two Reanda bad so long occupied in the Palaz- zetto 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 Fmncesca had caged him, as Francesca herself had once felt. She wished to remove him altogether from the latters influence, both be- cause she was frankly jealous of his friendship for the older woman, and wished to have him quite to herself, and also in the belief that he could do greater things if he were dtogether freed from the thsk of decorating the palace, which had kept him far too long in one limited sequence of produc- tion. There was, moreover, a selfish consideration of vanity in her view, closely linked with her unbounded admiration for her husband. She knew that she was beautiful, and she wished his greatest work to be a painting of herself. Gloria, however, wished also to take a position in Roman society, and the only person who could help her and her husband to cross the line was Francesca Campodonico. It was therefore impossible for Gloria to break up the intimacy altogether, however much she might wish to do so. meanwhile, too, Reanda had pot finished his frescoes. Soon after the marriage, which took place in the summer, Dalrymple left Rome, intending to be absent but a few months in Scotland, where his presence was necessuy on account of certain family affairs and arrangements consequent upon the death of Lord Xedin, the head of his branch of the Dal- rymples, and of Lord Redins son only a few weeks later, whereby the title went to an aged great-uncle of Angus Dalrymples, who was unmarried, so that Dalrymples only brother became the next heir. Gloria was therefore quite alone with her hus- band. Paul Griggs had also left Rome for a time on business connected with his journalistic career. - , He had in reality been unwilling to expose himself to the unnecessary suffering of witnessing Glorias happiness, and had taken the earliest opportunity of going away. GIoria herself was at first pleased by his departure. Later, however, she wished that he mould come back. She had no one to whom she could turn when she was in need of any advice on matters which Beanda could not or would not decide. Reanda himself was at fist as absolutely happy as he lid expected to be, and Francesca Camdonico congratulated herseLf on having brought about a perfectly successful match. While he con- tinued to work at the Palazzetto Borgia, the two were often together for hours, as in former times. Gloria had at st come regularly in the course of the morning and sat in the hall while her husband was painting, but she had found it a monotonous air after a while. Beanda could not talk per-petually...

ISBN-13: 9781443774604
ISBN-10: 144377460X
Publication Date: 10/27/2008
Pages: 340
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Publisher: Coss Press
Book Type: Paperback
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