Vagaries

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Axel Munthe. Vagaries

Vagaries

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VAGARIES

TOYS

FROM THE PARIS HORIZON

FOR THOSE WHO LOVE MUSIC

POLITICAL AGITATIONS IN CAPRI

MENAGERIE

ITALY IN PARIS

BLACKCOCK-SHOOTING

TO ——

MONSIEUR ALFREDO

MONT BLANC

KING OF THE MOUNTAINS

RAFFAELLA

THE DOGS IN CAPRI

AN INTERIOR

ZOOLOGY

HYPOCHONDRIA

LA MADONNA DEL BUON CAMMINO

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Axel Munthe

Published by Good Press, 2021

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He looked at me with a shy interest while he played, and when he had finished he bared his gray head; I also raised my hat, and thus our acquaintance was made.

It was not difficult to see that times were hard—the old man's clothes were doubtful, and the pallor of poverty lay over his withered features, where I read the story of a long life of failure. He came from the mountains around Monte Cassino, so he informed me, but where the monkey hailed from I never quite got to know.

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