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The Children of the King a Tale of Southern Italy
The Children of the King a Tale of Southern Italy Author:F Marion Crawford General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1905 Original Publisher: Macmillan and co. Subjects: Fiction / General Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary History / General History / Europe / Italy Literary Collections / American / General Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / American / Gene... more »ral Travel / Europe / Italy Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. Ten years have passed since the ever-memorable day on which the Children of the King hurt their fists so badly in battering Don Pietro Casale's sharp nose. They are big, bony men, now, with strongly marked features, short yellow hair and fair beards. So far they are alike, and at first sight might be taken for twin brothers. But there is a marked difference between them in character, which shows itself in their faces. Ruggiero's eye is of a colder blue, is less mobile and of harder expression than Sebastiano's. His firm lips are generally tightly closed, and his square chin is bolder than his brother's. He is stronger, too, though not by very much, and though he is more silent and usually more equable, he has by far the worse temper of the two. At sea there is little to choose between them. Perhaps, on the whole, Sebastiano has always been the favourite amongst his companions, while Ruggiero has been thoughtthe more responsible and possibly the more dangerous in a quarrel. Both, however, have acquired an extraordinarily good reputation as seamen, and also as boatmen on the pleasure craft of all sizes which sail the gulf of Naples during the summer season. They have made several long voyages, too. They have been to New York and to Buenos Ayres and have seen many ports of Europe and America, and much weat...« less