The Splendid Porsenna (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Splendid Porsenna When she was big enough not to tumble at every third step, there came another joy into her life, and that the orange-trees taught her. They had a way of dropping their leaves - the greenest and most shining ones - into the runnel at their feet, and the leaves sometimes went spinning down all the length of the viale till they came to the iron grating that led into the bowels of the earth at last. So Honora would climb up and pick the leaves, one, two, three, of the strong young ones, and pin them up at either end with a tiny twig from the spiraea bush, and would fill them with cargoes of violets or rose leaves, and then follow their course anxiously till ruin took them at the iron grating, where the bubbles went through 'with an angry swirl, and where there was always a little tangle of garden wreckage waiting for Peppino and his rake. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.