Narcissa, or the Road to Rome; In Verona

Narcissa, or The Road to Rome; in Verona by Laura Howe is about a young lady who guides a weary traveler down the road to Rome. Excerpt: «Narcissa was sitting in the doorway, feeding the young turkeys. It was the back door of the old gray house,—no one would have thought of sitting in the front doorway,—and there were crooked flagstones leading up to it, cracked and seamed, with grass growing in the cracks. Close by the door-post, against which the girl was leaning, stood a great bush of tansy…»