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[Sarconi V. <can...@vi...>]

Ure with whom he immediately fell desperately in love. Maria Assunta,
her father,

and a brood of brothers and sisters inhabited one of those little
houses of the Transtevera with walls uprising from the
waters of the Tiber, and an old fishing boat rocking
level with the door. One day he caught sight of the handsome Italian
girl, with bare feet in the sand, red skirt tightly

pleated around her, and unbleached linen sleeves tucked up to the
shoulders, catching eels out of a large gleaming wet net. The silvery
scales
glistening through the meshes full of water, the golden river and
scarlet petticoat, the beautiful black eyes deep and pensive, which
seemed darkened in their musing by the surrounding sunlight struck
the artist,

perhaps even rather trivially, like some coloured print on the
titlepage of a song in a music-seller's window. [Illustration:
p060-071]
It so chanced that the girl was heart-whole, having till now bestowed
her affections on a big tom-cat, yellow and sly, also a great fisher
of eels, who bristled up all over when anyone approached
his mistress. [Illustration: p061-072] Beasts and men, our

lover managed to tame all these folk, was married at Santa-Maria of
the Transtevera and brought back to France the beautiful Assunta and
her _cato_. A