BABYLON
By Grant Allen
(Cecil Power)
Author Of 'Philistia' 'Strange Stories' Etc.
In Three Volumes
Vol. III.
With Twelve Illustrations By P. Macnab
London
Chatto & Windus, Piccadilly
1885
Original
Original
CONTENTS
CHAPTER XXIX. A VIEW OF ROME, By Hiram Winthrop.
CHAPTER XXX. MINNA'S RESOLUTION.
CHAPTER XXXIV. HIRAM SEES LAND.
CHAPTER XXXVI. CECCA SHOWS HER HAND.
CHAPTER XXXVII. CECCA AND MINNA.
CHAPTER XXXVIII. GWEN HAS A VISITOR.
CHAPTER XXXIX. GWEN'S DECISION.
CHAPTER XLI. AUDOUIN'S MISTAKE.
CHAPTER XLII. A DISTINGUISHED CRITIC.
CHAPTER XLIII. THE SLOUGH OF DESPOND.
CHAPTER XLIV. THE CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS.
CHAPTER XLVI. AUDOUIN SINKS OR SWIMS.
CHAPTER XLVII. ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL.
CHAPTER XXIX. A VIEW OF ROME, By Hiram Winthrop.
In the midst of an undulating sunlit plain, fresh with flowers in spring, burnt and yellow in summer and autumn, a great sordid shrivelled city blinks and festers visibly among the rags and tatters in the eye of day. Within its huge imperial walls the shrunken modern town has left a broad skirt of unoccupied hillocks; low mounds covered by s