The Last Lady of Mulberry
Reading edition
A Story of Italian New York By Henry Wilton Thomas
Illustrated by Emil Pollak
New York D. Appleton and Company 1900
Copyright, 1900 By HENRY WILTON THOMAS All rights reserved
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I. —A goddess scorned 1
II. —Casa Di Bello 18
III. —A spot of yellow paint 37
IV. —Juno the Superb 44
V. —The First Lady 57
VI. —Carolina resolves to go courting 75
VII. —A flutter in the Tomato Bank 82
VIII. —Juno performs a miracle 94
IX. —The Perpetua meets a bear 102
X. —Birth of the Last Lady 114
XI. —A race to the swift 123
XII. —The peace preserved 143
XIII. —The peace disturbed 153
XIV. —Yellow boots and orange blossoms 172
XV. —Failure of Banca Tomato 186
XVI. —The Last Lady unmasked 211
XVII. —The falcon saves the dove 228
XVIII. —At the altar of San Patrizio 238
XIX. —Events wait upon the dandelions 255
XX. —A house divided 268
XXI. —The feast of springtide 278
XXII. —Carolina constructs a drama 292
XXIII. —A partnership in ten-inch St. Peters 308
XXIV. —Two troublesome wedding gifts 314
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
FACING PAGE
Flowers for a Neapolitan of the Porto! Frontispiece
Would Genoa be the same when his Juno and Peacock should be there? 5
Bertino’s arrival at Paradise Park 20
The bear-tamer’s wife 109
“A broken leg! Dio Santo!” 111
It was a wild thrust 170
Bridget in balia array 189
Jack Tar’s ignoble end 196
The Last Lady as Queen of the Feast 287
THE LAST LADY OF MULBERRY