Lulu`s Triumph part 5
We shall take a trip through Italy, but without haste, taking short journeys, enjoying every comfort, stopping where we please, seeing even the most...
Lulu`s Triumph part 4
But this afternoon he lay stretched out in an armchair, one leg crossed over the other, a book in his hand, with the fixed...
Lulu`s Triumph part 3
“Have I said anything wrong?”
“No, dear, no; you are right. When one loves one marries. It is difficult to awaken love,” and she sighed...
Lulu`s Triumph part 2
“I will stop, I will stop. Well, then, at the races we sat in the front row on the grand stand. Paolo Lovato came...
Lulu`s Triumph part 1
Matilde Serao (1856-1927)
Matilde Serao was born at Patras, Greece, in 1856, and was the most distinguished of the older generation of modern Italian women...
A Terribly Strange Bed part 15
The smothering canopy was then lowered, but not so noiselessly as I had seen it lowered. When I mentioned this to the Sub-prefect, his...
A Terribly Strange Bed part 14
Away we went through the streets, the Sub-prefect cross-examining and congratulating me in the same breath as we marched at the head of our...
A Terribly Strange Bed part 13
To some men the means of escape which I had discovered might have seemed difficult and dangerous enough—to me the prospect of slipping down...
A Terribly Strange Bed part 12
But ere long all thought was again suspended by the sight of the mur-derous canopy moving once more. After it had remained on the...
A Terribly Strange Bed part 11
Without stopping to draw my breath, without wiping the cold sweat from my face, I rose instantly on my knees to watch the bed-top....
