Forbidden Lover

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Рафаэль Сабатини. Forbidden Lover

Forbidden Lover

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Illustrated by Mead Schaeffer

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Rafael Sabatini

Published by Good Press, 2021

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It was assumed that he was some young gentleman of family travelling with a clerical tutor, and his fellow passengers held themselves respectfully aloof as from a being of a superior race.

His first glimpse of the Campanile of St. Mark's, thrusting upward like a mammoth spear into the cobalt sky, so thrilled his poetical nature as to drive him to the very brink of tears. And when at last he had a clear view of Venice, looking in the afternoon sunlight like a city of ivory and gold, magically afloat upon the silver mirror of the sea, his emotions crossed that brink, and the tears, brimming over, trickled down his cheeks.

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