A Social Meteor — page 283: what you’re looking at

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A SOCIAL METEOR. 273 ‘Heaven bless you!” she cried, and a moment later she was gone. CHAPTER XIX. LEE AND RAY IN NAPLES. It was late afternoon in Naples. The sun, slowly sinking in the west, touched with linger- ing tenderness the snowy mountain peaks and the bright blue waters of the bay, as though loth to leave so lovely a spot. The city, with its white buildings stretched in long curved lines along the shore, one above the other, formed a rest for the eye wearied with gaz- ing upon the beauties of nature displayed on every side. Monasteries and houses, separated from each other by a succession of finely kept gardens and vineyards, looked down from their proud ele- vations upon the matchless panorama spread out beneath them. While above all Vesuvius, with its crown of living flame, glowed with a faint, yellowish light, as the rays of the departing sun fell upon it. Gomicboo S (E(@)