Mezzoni the Brigand — page 63: what you’re looking at

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, or iia od ° J MEZZONI THE BRIGAND., 6d CHAPTER VI. THE JAR OF GOLD. Naples, like Genoa, is full of old palaces, formerly occupied by wealthy and titled families, who have long since passed away, leaving descendants still resident in them, but whose fortunes have very generally dwindled away. The titles and the pal- aces have been easily handed down, but pecuniary resources have very naturally proved much more ephemeral. In the Strada Roma, Naples, also known as the Strada Toledo, there are a number of these palatial residences, as pretentious as they. were a century since, though the fortune of the present occupant may be, in a pecuniary sense, of the humblest char- acter. Among these palaces was that of the Corrello family, once known as among the leading spirits of the then Kingdom of Naples. This family had sustained a high position in Italian history—they were loyal, proud, and rich. With the death of the representative of the family, half a century since, the proverbial wealth of the Correllos had also passed away. But there stood the palace as of yore, now occupied only by Alberto Corrello, the sole living representative of a long line of famous statesmen and soldiers, men who had served their country generation after generation. Time was when the ancestors of Alberto Corrello were held by the people as little lower than the oc- cupants of the throne itself, But, alas! the nobility Eomichbooks:.co