Category: Novels
Minna tapped her foot on the floor and frowned, resting her chin on her hand as she leaned a little forward in her chair. Then she let her eyes wander round the large, pleasant room, into which the south sun was pouring warmly, and she frowned again. For a moment she felt a st...
Minna tapped her foot on the floor and frowned, resting her chin on her hand as she leaned a little forward in her chair. Then she let her eyes wander round the large, pleasant...
2. CHAPTER II.Hans Riemann led Minna through one or two narrow streets and alleys, till they emerged in a small, quiet, but very pleasant-looking piazza, the exact locality of which I am not...
3. CHAPTER III.In a week from that day Minna Hastings left her lodgings and removed to Casa Dietrich. She had stored her superfluous furniture in her studio and the sitting-room belonging to i...
4. CHAPTER IV.One morning Minna, who breakfasted in her own room, having finished sooner than usual, in consequence of the premature arrival of Arcangela, the housemaid, with the meal, found...
5. CHAPTER V.On the following morning Minna sallied forth immediately after breakfast, leaving word with Ettore that she was going to her studio, and would not be in for either lunch or dinn...
6. CHAPTER VI.‘Oh!’ replied Minna hastily, ‘I have never done anything worth speaking of, or calling work. People who wish to imagine that they are sculptors should not come to Rome. It is th...
7. CHAPTER VII.It was a long time before Minna slept that night. She was excited, but pleasantly so. In her gratification over what Signor Giuseppe had said to her about her work, and over his...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Hans Riemann had advised Minna not to ‘bother herself’ about the drama which was going on in the house, but she thought about it a great deal. She had been greatly attracted by...