Chapter I: Front Matter

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A VENETIAN JUNE

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_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

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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