Bagatelle and Some Other Diversions
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Bowen Marjorie. Bagatelle and Some Other Diversions
Bagatelle and Some Other Diversions
Table of Contents
PROLOGUE
BAGATELLE
FIVE MUSICAL THEMES
A FLOURISH FOR DRUMS
CAPRICCIO
A TUNE FOR A TRUMPET
SERENATA
A FANFARE FOR SILVER TRUMPETS
A PLAY — HOMAGE TO THE UNKNOWN
(Omaggio a la Incognita)
CHARACTERS
SCENE. A baroque chamber
DIVERSIONS:
SUPPER WITH MADAME OLSHAUSEN
A PROMENADE IN THE COLISEUM
(Passegiata nel Coloseo)
A SUMMER NOON IN ROME
(Mezzogiorno in Roma)
A VISIT TO VERONA TO SEE. THE RUINS OF THE AMPHITHEATRE
AN ANECDOTE
THE END
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Marjorie Bowen
Published by Good Press, 2021
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Karl August raged because he could not have the insolent woman removed; sulky and violent he meditated a revenge that would be the sterner for being deferred; he knew himself capable of complete cruelty; his uneasiness increased.
There were six gentlemen at the supper, companions in arms and pleasures. The windows were open on to the monstrous moon, the melody of caged nightingales, on the voices of Siennese boys singing to zithers, and on the steady, recurrent splash of a fountain that was as monotonous as a heart-beat.
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