The Heart of Rome: A Tale of the "Lost Water"
                        
                     
                                                         
                
                    The Heart of Rome: A Tale of the "Lost Water"
                                            
                            By F. Marion Crawford
                            
                                31 Oct, 2019                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        Brief Extract: Her husband had perhaps known what was coming, and how soon, but she had not. There was something awful in contrast. As she went through one of the rooms a mouse ran from under the fringe of a velvet curtain and took refuge under an ar
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                                                Brief Extract: Her husband had perhaps known what was coming, and how soon, but she had not. There was something awful in contrast. As she went through one of the rooms a mouse ran from under the fringe of a velvet curtain and took refuge under an armchair. She had sat in that very chair ten days ago and the Russian ambassador had talked to her; she remembered how he had tried to extract information from her about the new issue of three and a half percent national bonds, because her husband was one of the financiers who were expected to "manipulate" the loan. Less