A Siren

A Siren
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"A Siren" by Thomas Adolphus Trollope. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

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Thomas Adolphus Trollope. A Siren

A Siren

Table of Contents

BOOK I. Ash Wednesday Morning

CHAPTER I. The Last Night of Carnival

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III. St. Apollinare in Classe

CHAPTER IV. Father Fabiano

CHAPTER V "The Hours passed, and still she came not"

CHAPTER VI. Gigia's Opinion

CHAPTER VII. An Attorney-at-law in the Papal States

CHAPTER VIII. Lost in the Forest

CHAPTER IX "Passa la Bella Donna e par che dorma"—Tasso

BOOK II. Four Months before that Ash Wednesday Morning

CHAPTER I. How the good News came to Ravenna

CHAPTER II. The Marchese Lamberto di Castelmare

CHAPTER III. The Impresario's Report

CHAPTER IV. Paolina Foscarelli

CHAPTER V. Rivalry

CHAPTER VI. The Beginning of Trouble

CHAPTER VII. The Teaching of a Great Love

CHAPTER VIII. A Change in the Situation

CHAPTER IX. Uncle and Nephew

CHAPTER X. The Contessa Violante

CHAPTER XI. The Cardinal's Reception, and the Marchese's Ball

CHAPTER XII. The Arrival of the "Diva"

BOOK III "Sirenum Pocula"

CHAPTER I "Diva Potens"

CHAPTER II. An Adopted Father and an Adopted Daughter

CHAPTER III "Armed at All Points"

CHAPTER IV. Throwing the Line

CHAPTER V. After-thoughts

CHAPTER VI. At the Circolo

CHAPTER VII. Extremes Meet

CHAPTER VIII. The Diva shows her Cards

CHAPTER IX. One Struggle more

BOOK IV. The last Days of the Carnival

CHAPTER I. In the Cardinal's Chapel

CHAPTER II. The Corso

CHAPTER III "La Sonnambula"

CHAPTER IV. The Marchese Lamberto's Correspondence

CHAPTER V. Bianca at Home

CHAPTER VI. Paolina at Home

CHAPTER VII. Two Interviews

CHAPTER VIII. A Carnival Reception

CHAPTER IX. Paolina's Return to the City

BOOK V. Who Did the Deed?

CHAPTER I. At the City Gate

CHAPTER II. Suspicion

CHAPTER III. Guilty or not Guilty?

CHAPTER IV. The Marchese hears the Ill News

CHAPTER V. Doubts and Possibilities

CHAPTER VI. At the Circolo again

CHAPTER VII. A Prison Visit

CHAPTER VIII. Signor Giovacchino Fortini at Home

CHAPTER IX. The Post-Mortem Examination

CHAPTER X. Public Opinion

CHAPTER XI. In Father Fabiano's Cell

CHAPTER XII. The Case against Paolina

BOOK VI. Poena Pede Claudo

CHAPTER I. Signor Fortini receives the Signora Steno in his Studio

CHAPTER II. Was it Paolina after all?

CHAPTER III. Could it have been the Aged Friar?

CHAPTER IV. What Ravenna thought of it

CHAPTER V "Miserrimus"

CHAPTER VI. The Trial

CHAPTER VII. The Friar's Testimony

CHAPTER VIII. The Truth!

CHAPTER IX. Conclusion

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Thomas Adolphus Trollope

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The raised causeway, however, keeps on its course amid the low-lying marshes on either side of it; and presently the peculiar form of outline belonging to a forest composed entirely of the maritime pine is distinguishable on the horizon to the left. The road quickly draws nearer to it; and the large, heavy, velvet-like masses of dark verdure become visible. In a forest such as the famous Pineta, consisting of the maritime pine only, the lines, especially when seen at a distance, have more of horizontal and less of perpendicular direction than in any other assemblage of trees. And the effect produced by the continuity of spreading umbrella-like tops is peculiar.

Then, soon after the forest has become visible, the road brings the wayfarer within sight of a vast lonely structure heaving its huge long back against the low horizon, like some monster antidiluvian saurian, the fit denizen of this marsh world. It is the venerable Basilica of St. Apollinare in Classe.

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