# The Atlantic Monthly Volume 08 No 49 November 1861 A Magazine O

Author: Unknown

Genre: Public Domain

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: Local public-domain TXT source

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## Summary

The golden sunshine of the spring morning was deadened to a sombre tone in the shadowy courts of the Capuchin convent. The reddish brown of the walls was flecked with gold and orange spots of lichen; and here and there, in crevices, tufts of grass, or even a little bunch of gold-blooming flowers, looked hardily forth into the shadowy air. A covered walk, with stone arches, inclosed a square filled with dusky shrubbery. There were tall funereal cypresses, whose immense height and scraggy profusion of decaying branches showed their extreme old age. There were gaunt, gnarled olives, with trunks twisted in immense serpent folds, and boughs wreathed and knotted into wild, unnatural contraction...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-atlantic-monthly-volume-08-no-49-november-1861-a-magazine-o-6d87c88d/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-atlantic-monthly-volume-08-no-49-november-1861-a-magazine-o-6d87c88d/chapters/1/index.md)