Reine Canziani [by C G Godwin]

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ness (to speak as an artist would speak) when the features are animated by their every-day expression, and not alone, when they are arranged into a becoming form for public exhibition. I would ascerta: n how much of the spirit of ancient times yet remains in these Greeks, and, if I find it there, although dormant, I will prove if it can be aroused into noble action, when the voice of freedom shall be heard in the land. I would be an inmate in the dwelling of one of these Perote Greeks, if such a plan is practicable. Mr. smiled at the enthusiasm of his countryman; and, although he warned him to be more circumspect in his language, and more temperate in his aspiration after freedom, under the existing, order of things, he did not press him to remain in a position it appeared his inclination prompted him to quit. Well acquainted with several of the Greek merchants residing in Pera, he used his influence in Monthermer's behalf, who, consequently, became an inmate in the family of Nicholas Paleopulo, with whom he remained until the destructive fire destroyed not.only the dwelling ef his host, but reduced the British minister himself to the necessity of taking refuge in the house of a more fortunate friend, until his own habitation should be repaired. When Monthermer accompanied Pa- leopulo to Belgrade, on the night of the fire, he little expected to behold, in the daughter of Canziani, the beautiful Greek who had captivated his wayward fancy as she sat with her family in the Mulberry-grove: and to be an inmate in the same house with her, to see and converse with her daily, was a source of delight he had little looked for. There was a charm about Reine peculiarly adapted to fascinate Monthermer. He had associated with women of the world, had turned disgusted from their st...