Front matter
Reading edition
By Anna Fuller
A Literary Courtship A Venetian June Peak and Prairie Pratt Portraits Later Pratt Portraits One of the Pilgrims Katherine Day A Bookful of Girls
The Thunderhead Lady By Anna Fuller and Brian Read
"May watched the yacht until it disappeared from sight"ToList
A Venetian June
By Anna Fuller
With 16 Illustrations in Color by Frederick S. Coburn
New York & London G. P. Putnam's Sons The Knickerbocker Press
Copyright, 1896 by G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
Copyright, 1913 by G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
23d Printing
The Knickerbocker Press, New York
To ELENA
If from the flower of thy perfect gift One drop of cordial be distilled, 'tis thine.
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE
I.— Venice 3
II.— A Venetian Thoroughfare 13
III.— A Pair of Pollys 25
IV.— A Reverie 37
V.— The Signora 49
VI.— A Festa 65
VII.— Gathering Poppies 87
VIII.— The Pulse of the Sea 109
IX.— By-ways of Venice 129
X.— A Benediction 145
XI.— At Torcello 163
XII.— A Promotion 179
XIII.— Illuminations 197
XIV.— A Summer's Day 219
XV.— June Roses 239
XVI.— A Surrender 253
XVII.— The Serenata 269
XVIII.— Search-Lights 285
XIX.— "Decus Et Praesidium" 301
Illustrations
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"May Watched the Yacht Until it Disappeared from Sight" Frontispiece
"Between Frowning Walls and Low-arched Bridges" 4
"Time-worn Palaces, and the Darkly Doubtful Water at their Base" 6
"On a Stone Bridge, Leaning Against the Iron Railing, Stood a Woman in a Sulphur Shawl" 8
"They Were Passing the Charming Little Gothic Palace Known as the House of Desdemona" 14
"They had Mounted to the High Gallery that Spans the Space between Pillar and Pillar" 50
"The Gondola is the Centre of Everything; it is Venice and a Living Creature Besides" 72
"Now and then they Stopped at Some Doorway Opening upon the Water, where they Landed" 138
"A Courtyard Embellished by an Exquisite Old Stone Staircase" 140
"The Madonnas, under their Iron Canopies, Looked down, Serene and Beneficent" 142
"Where the Loveliest of All the Parasol Madonnas Keeps Guard over the Still Lagoon" 166
"The Morning was Truly Venetian, Soft and Fair as a Dream" 170
"Under the Beautiful Colonnade of the Cathedral" 172
"May Watched the Water-logged Craft as it Vanished under a Distant Bridge" 224
"The Serenata" 272
"It Seems as if the Lagoons Belonged to them this Evening" 316